Bachmann's White House bid under Tea Party banner

WASHINGTON — Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann plans to launch her Republican presidential bid late on Sunday with a tour of key primary states Iowa, New Hampshire and North Carolina.The Minnesota representative is returning to her roots to kick off her campaign in her native city of Waterloo, Iowa.After stepping boldly into the 2012 White House race to challenge President Barack Obama by stealing the show at the first major Republican debate on June 13, Bachmann hopes to captivate voters in the three states she will cross over three days.Her rival Sarah Palin, a Tea Party superstar who was the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, has yet to announce her intentions about a possible presidential bid. In her absence, Bachmann hopes to score a hold on the conservative wing of the party.Bachmann, like her male Republican contenders Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Ron Paul, New Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Rick Santorum and Herman Cain, has narrowed her attacks on Obama.The 55-year-old congresswoman has already challenged the president on everything from health care reform and the soaring US deficit to the military intervention in Libya."I want to announce tonight: President Obama is a one-term president," she told the audience at the Republican debate in New Hampshire.Just like Palin, Bachmann has long been criticized for her blunders, including a claim that the first shots of the American Revolutionary War took place in New Hampshire, not Massachusetts. But she has been more cautious in her recent public appearances.She is the only woman so far to have declared a Republican bid, and despite remaining relatively unknown to the broader US public, her telegenic image could generate greater appeal.Founder and chair of the Tea Party caucus in the House of Representatives, Bachmann toes the traditional line of American conservatism.She hopes to repeal Obama's landmark health care reforms, saying at the debate: "As president of the United States, I will not rest until I repeal Obamacare. It's a promise." The mother o

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