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Senate GOP: Bennett Loss an Isolated Event
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur May 10, 2010 08:38pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | CQ-Roll Call Staff |
| News Date | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Senate Republican leaders on Monday searched for a silver lining in Sen. Robert F. Bennett's ouster this past weekend at Utah's state GOP convention. Bennett failed to advance to the June 22 Republican primary after finishing third in a vote of 3,500 Utah GOP delegates.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) argued that Bennett's defeat was due primarily to Utah's peculiar rules for primary elections; only the top two finishers from each party's state convention make it onto the statewide primary ballot. Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) recognized the role anti-Washington fervor played in Bennett's demise, but he made the case that Utah Democrats are similarly peeved at the political establishment.
"It is not limited to the Republican Party. I noted that the Democrat congressman from Utah just barely made it into the primary himself, and obviously the concerns people had about Bennett were different than the concerns about him," Kyl said. "So it's an anti-Washington mood for sure, and I think Sen. Bennett would be the first to characterize it as that." |
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