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Just days after GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle was caught on tape bashing the party that nominated her, Angle and another Tea Party-leaning candidate, Marco Rubio, were honored at an event held by an elite group of Republican donors as well as a number of current GOP senators at the so-called “lobbyist row” condos on K Street, National Journal and The Wall Street Journal reported. Was this an attempt to placate Angle by raising funds for her inside the Beltway and reign in her establishment-bashing? Or was the event held as a public show of solidarity among Republican incumbents and the party’s nominees? Whatever the case, GOP senators seemed willing to brush aside Angle’s previous criticisms of the party and come out in support of their nominee. Since Angle’s comment that the Republican Party had “lost its principles” was made public, the race in Nevada is shaping up to be “Harry Reid versus the Tea Party.” Reid is running against the man billing himself as the Tea Party candidate, Jon Scott Ashjian, and Angle, who is endorsed by the Tea Party. One way the GOP seems to be dealing with Angle’s recent statements is to relate it to dissatisfaction with “Washington elites” in general, versus the Republican Party in particular. Former Virginia GOP Senator George Allen was quoted as saying about Angle on his way into the fundraiser, "What Sharron Angle is saying as far as Washington elites, I hear that all across Virginia."