Posts Tagged ‘Hatch’

Hatch Cruises to Easy Primary Win

“The tea party, big-spending PACs and challenger Dan Liljenquist failed Tuesday to force 78-year-old Orrin Hatch into retirement,” the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Tweet This Post

GOP lawmaker loses in Okla., Hatch wins in Utah

Republican divisions resurfaced in congressional primaries, with five-term Rep. John Sullivan falling to a tea party backed opponent in Oklahoma while Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch easily defeated another candidate backed by the insurgent group. It was Hatch's first primary challenge since his election to the Senate in 1976. Tweet This Post

Hatch overcomes tea party challenge to win primary

Sen. Orrin Hatch won the GOP primary in Utah on Tuesday, handily turning back a challenge from tea party forces hoping to jolt the Republican Party again by defeating an incumbent who occasionally strayed from the movement's focus on shrinking the federal government. Tweet This Post

Hatch overcomes tea party challenge to win primary

Sen. Orrin Hatch won the GOP primary in Utah on Tuesday, handily turning back a challenge from tea party forces hoping to jolt the Republican Party again by defeating an incumbent who occasionally strayed from the movement's focus on shrinking the federal government. Tweet This Post

Sen. Hatch looking to avoid revolt within GOP

Over the past two years, GOP primaries have ended the careers of several veteran Republican politicians who were backed by the party's establishment. Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch is seeking to avoid the same fate in his first primary challenge since winning office in 1976. Tweet This Post

Hatch Looks Safe in Primary

A new Deseret News/KSL-TV poll finds Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) leads challenger Dan Liljenquist (R) in the Republican U.S. Senate primary, 60% to 32%. Tweet This Post

Hatch Looks Safe in Primary

A new Deseret News/KSL-TV poll finds Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) leads challenger Dan Liljenquist (R) in the Republican U.S. Senate primary, 60% to 32%. Tweet This Post

Utah Sen. Hatch seems to have weathered GOP storm

It was an entertaining exchange, as one-man debates go. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post