Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) told the Deseret News that “radicals” who don’t share Republican Party values could overtake the state GOP.
“Thank goodness they’re not the majority,” Hatch said in an interview, published Wednesday. “But we’ve got to watch that or we’ll end up with a state dominated by radicals.”
Hatch voted in favor of the fiscal cliff deal, but he told the paper he understands why some of his Utah colleagues did not. “Those who voted against it did so to protect themselves, I guess, from some of these radical outside groups,” he said. “I don’t find any fault with the delegation because we’ve got a special climate out there that is very difficult.”