WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The Republican Party will "embrace" the grassroots conservative activists of the tea party movement, the Republican National Committee chairman says.
RNC Chairman Michael Steele, appearing Wednesday on "Fox and Friends," said the right-wing populist movement "puts in stark relief where the American people are" and asserted it's important for the GOP to "understand this so that we can move towards it, embrace it, and then move into the future."