Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who may face a primary challenge next year, apparently now has one less thing to worry about.
The Tea Party Express, a national Tea Party organization that last year helped oust Bob Bennett, Utah’s other GOP senator, as he unsuccessfully tried to win his party’s re-nomination, says they have no plans as of now to target Hatch next as he gears up for re-election in 2012.
Sal Russo, the Tea Party Express’s chief strategist, tells CNN that “Hatch has been a good friend and a solid conservative. He’s been a good solid conservative vote in the Senate since 1976.”
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