“He’s fighting the good fight but there are some misconceptions he’s facing that are very hard to overcome,” Hatch said, adding of the GOP’s conservative grass roots, “They’re mad at everybody.”
Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) said, “I am deeply concerned that he faces opposition that I don’t believe is warranted.”
Bennett’s prospects at the convention have so worried the GOP’s establishment that some influential Republicans in Washington have sent word through Bennett’s predecessor, former Utah GOP Sen. Jake Garn, that Bennett ought to consider running regardless of what happens Saturday…
Indeed, Bennett is in many ways the personification of a decorous senator from the old school — a fitting image for somebody who grew up the son of a Utah senator who served four terms during the more collegial mid-20th century.
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