Orrin Hatch May Face Primary Challenge From Mike Lee's Former Chief Of Staff

By CAMERON JOSEPH Published OCTOBER 10, 2017 10:01 AM

Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) former chief of staff is gearing up for a possible primary challenge to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT).

Boyd Matheson tells Politico that he’s looking at a run whether or not the 83-year-old Hatch retires, framing it as a generational more than an ideological challenge. “We’re backwards facing and backwards looking,” he said. “To me, it’s about what’s next.”

Matheson recently met with former top Trump adviser Steve Bannon, as well as David Bossie, another rabble-rousing conservative former Trump adviser who still has the president’s ear.

Matheson was a top staffer for Lee when he unseated moderate then-Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) in 2010.

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