Bannon's Senate Insurgency Hits a Stumbling Block in Utah
The <em>Breitbart</em> chair’s effort to recruit populist challengers hits a snag, as the most plausible such candidate for Orrin Hatch’s seat bows out of the race.
by McKay Coppins
Nov 20, 2017
3 minutes
Steve Bannon’s widely hyped war on the Republican establishment hit a setback Monday in Utah, when a prominent conservative he’d been courting to mount an insurgent Senate bid in the state announced he wouldn’t run.
Boyd Matheson—a prominent Utah Republican who heads the conservative Sutherland Institute think tank—met with Bannon during a recent trip to Washington, D.C., while exploring a potential bid for Orrin Hatch’s senate seat. When the meeting was first made public
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