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Kentucky: Orrin Hatch

Wed, 09/03/2008 - 11:47

McConnell: 'Virtually no chance' for GOP Senate majority in 2009

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

MINNEAPOLIS -- U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) told Utah's delegation to the Republican National Convention that retaking the majority in the Senate this year was something his party would likely not be able to do.

According to a report from the Salt Lake Tribune, McConnell said the "numbers were daunting" in Senate contests.

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Mon, 09/01/2008 - 18:41

Confidence from NRSC on Bunning in 2010

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

[img_assist|nid=1069|title=U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning|desc=Getty Images Photo|link=none|align=none|width=420|height=287]ST. PAUL, Minn. – As speculation continues about who will run from the Democratic side, National Republican Senatorial Committee Vice-chair and Sen. from Utah, Orrin Hatch, sounded sure that Republican incumbent Jim Bunning (R-Southgate) would seek re-election in 2010.

“He’s going to run,” Hatch told PolitickerKY.com.

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Mon, 09/01/2008 - 16:20

Hatch on McConnell: ‘There is nobody that’s going to beat him’

By Trey Pollard, PolitickerKY.com Reporter

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee likes his party’s odds of retaining a seat in Kentucky’s U.S. Sen. race between Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) and businessman Bruce Lunsford (D-Louisville).

“McConnell is one of the truly great senators. I think all he’s got to do is just emphasize what he is doing for Kentucky,” NRSC Vice-chair and U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) told PolitickerKY.com. “There is nobody that’s going to beat him.”

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