Chuck DeVore is quickly rising in the race to replace liberal Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer in California. DeVore continues to win over crowds as he travels throughout California with a principled message of conservative values. In fact, the latest Rasmussen poll shows DeVore has cut Boxers lead in half in just a few months. She led him by 10 points in November, but today she only leads him by by 5 points (47-42%), nearly within the 4.5% margin of error.
And just as DeVore shows he can beat Boxer in the general election, he was picked by the nation's leading conservative columnist, George Will, to win the GOP primary. On ABC's This Week, Will said, "Chuck DeVore, he's the conservative in the race, and I'll make you a small wager he is the Republican nominee."
And in Will's latest Sunday column for the Washington Post, he explained why DeVore's conservative message is resonating:
The most conservative candidate is DeVore, 47, an aerospace executive and lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve. Last year, Campbell supported Proposition 1A, which would have extended for two years the largest state tax increase in U.S. history. This lost 2 to 1; it lost in every county and even in this collectivist city. Campbell also favored increasing the gas tax by 32 cents. Fiorina has cited the "cap-and-trade" legislation of John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) as praiseworthy bipartisanship. DeVore has no such deviations from conservative orthodoxy...
When addressing Tea Party audiences, DeVore asks how many of his listeners have ever been politically active before. Only about 10 percent raise their hands. Conservatives everywhere were dispirited by the Bush administration; California conservatives are doubly demoralized as the failed Schwarzenegger experiment expires. Politics is supposed to be fun, and for California conservatives, voting for DeVore would be the first fun in many a moon.
DeVore also sat down recently with Glenn Beck, where the two discussed the dangers of the progressive movement and the need for Americans to require Washington to follow the U.S. Constitution.