Don't look now, but another high-profile Republican is about to enter the presidential campaign: Orrin Hatch. Sometime before the end of the month, the veteran senator from Utah will announce his bid for the White House. THE SCRAPBOOK tried to reach Hatch last week to talk about his strategy, but he wasn't taking calls, and there are scant details available about his candidacy. Given his success over the past decade in infuriating conservatives over everything from working with Ted Kennedy to laying out a censure deal for Bill Clinton, to say nothing of his late start and lack of an obvious distinctive message, it's difficult to envision Hatch's faring well in the primaries. And even he seems to recognize this. He recently told the Deseret News, his home-town Salt Lake City daily, "If I decide to run, I know it's a long shot."
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DOWN THE HATCH
Don't look now, but another high-profile Republican is about to enter the presidential campaign: Orrin Hatch. Sometime before the end of the month, the veteran senator from Utah will announce his bid for the White House. THE SCRAPBOOK tried to reach Hatch last week to talk about his strategy, but…
The Scrapbook · June 28, 1999
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