Tea Party, key GOP group not sold on Orrin Hatch

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Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, could face an election challenge next year from a Tea Party candidate and others on his right.
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Is Sen. Orrin Hatch as “good as it gets” when it comes to Republicans?

The Club for Growth, a group of fiscal conservatives, doesn’t think so and is taking exception to a Tea Party leader who said the Utah senator is a conservative in the mold of Ronald Reagan and “as good as it gets.”

Meanwhile, Tea Party Express chairwoman Amy Kremer has clarified the comments made yesterday by the group’s strategist Sal Russo, who also said his friend Hatch is “an original Tea Partier.”

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