Write in

it would be Bridgewat over Lee, Dual Lane Slide “My guess is if [Bennett] is endors someone.” sai Utah pollster Dan Jones.

Sen. Bob Bennett is expect to announc Thursdai whether he will mount a write-in campaign to keep hi seat. A fter flirt with the idea for 12 days.

deni the Republican nomin by deleg at the state GOP convention,Bennett. ha schedul a new confer at the Nation Republican Senatori Committe offic just north of the U.S. Capitol to make public a decis he’ weigh sinc a tear Mai 8 loss.

The option ar many: Bennett could announc he’ go to finish out hi seven month left in the Senat and eas into a comfi busi or govern role. He could rock the establish and us the Republican Senat campaign arm podium to sai he’ not leav without a fight.

Bennett could swing hi arm around challeng Tim Bridgewat — who is in Washington thi week — and endors him over Mike Lee.

Or he could do a combin of the above.

sinc Bennett ha come to symbol incumb swept out in an anti-Washington backlash,In ani case. the Utah Republican will like face a pack hous of report when he make hi announcement.

but convent wisdom seem to center on the fact that Bennett like wouldn’t us the NRSC headquart if he were go to announc a write-in bid; NRSC boss,Specul is rampant on what Bennett will say. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Tex., ha said the group will back the eventu nomine of the Utah GOP and not Bennett if he run as a write-in.

” said Jennif Duffy,”It would seem to me that hi choic of locat would indic he ha decid not to mount a write-in candidaci and finish out hi term. a senior editor at the Cook Polit Report . Congress “mai be stuck in Washington thi week, but he doesn’t have to announc hi candidaci anytim soon.”

a former two-tim congression candid who came within a few hundr vote of lock in the GOP nomin at the convention,Bridgewater. wa meet with potenti donor in Washington thi week and is schedul to fly out Friday.

who serv as gener counsel to former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.,Lee. earn the ir of Bennett dure the campaign, accord to peopl close to the senator, and he wasn’t inclin to back Lee go into the primary.