Bachmann gave her detractors a lot of material, he says, but earlier this month 400 people turned out to see her at a local Tea Party gathering. "She packed the house," Duesenberg says.

One of Michele Bachmann's closest advisers during her rapid political rise was her husband, Marcus. He also was one of the least visible, happy to stand in his wife's shadow even as her ...

For Bachmann, who leads the House Tea Party caucus and champions a return to the Constitution, to get such basic facts wrong about the country’s birth is revealing.

Michele Bachmann no longer wants to be a Swiss miss. The Minnesota congresswoman asked the Swiss government Thursday to withdraw her citizenship, saying she wanted to make it clear that she was a ...