Posted on 01/03/2024 8:49:20 AM PST by cotton1706
The Republican primary race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah has gained two more challengers with Rep. John Curtis and the son of former Sen. Orrin Hatch both launching bids on Tuesday.
Curtis changed his mind after previously declining a bid while several other Republican candidates emerged, and announced in a video he’d be running for the seat. Brent Orrin Hatch, whose late father used to hold Romney’s seat, launched his campaign in a statement reported by local outlet KSL.com.
“As a father and a grandfather, I care deeply about Utah’s future. That’s why today, I’m announcing my candidacy for the U.S. Senate. We need to get America back on track,” Curtis said in his announcement video. “As your senator, I’ll work hard every day to make Utah an even better place. I’m John Curtis, and I look forward to earning your vote.”
Curtis, who has been in Congress since 2017, pledged to fight the Biden administration’s “reckless spending,” make America both energy independent and dominant, secure the southern border, stand up to China and “push back on D.C.’s takeover of what should be Utah’s land,” he said in the video.
Conversely, Hatch hasn’t held elected office, but does have experience in Washington, D.C., according to KSL.com. The Republican previously served as a law clerk to former Judge Robert H. Bork and as an associate White House counsel to former President George H.W. Bush.
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In Utah, whoever gets the Republican nomination will be the next senator.
Primary is June 25th
No Nepo Babies.
Exactly. Please, no more children of politicians going into office. They need to go out and get real jobs to learn how the rest of us suffer under Washington’s laws.
Is anyone worth voting for running?
The establishment is desperate to maintain their hold on power. Outsiders not welcome.
Hatch wasn’t freedom loving either.
OMG!! A MORMON DYNASTY!!
I’d approve a Constitutional amendment prohibiting from office or government employment sons,daughters,nieces, and nephews of any politicians .Skip one generation and then be eligible. No more political dynasties.
The real question is why are dynasties so appealing to voters?
“Is anyone worth voting for running?”
Staggs. That’s who they’re trying to prevent from getting the nomination.
“The real question is why are dynasties so appealing to voters?”
They don’t. But the oligarchs arrange things so that the people can choose from no one else.
But glitches to their plans happen. See 2016, when their preferred oligarchs Bush and then Clinton were thoroughly vanquished.
As a Utah voter, it’s a huge NO to Hatch
The Speaker of the House and the Mayor of Riverton are positioned to the right.
The focus will be on Hatch here because everyone recognizes the name, but Congressman John Curtis is no bargain either. Curtis is a squish who voted to create the January 6th Kangaroo Kourt Kommittee.
And he did so AFTER Trump had endorsed him for re-election in 2020, one of 16 House Republicans who Trump endorsed and then backstabbed him and voted for a Committee whose sole purpose was to lynch the ex-President.
Maybe all of these left wing candidates will split the April caucus vote and allow the voters at least 1 good primary option (if there is a primary).
Brad Wilson may be to the “right” of Hatch & Curtis, but that hardly makes him a conservative and his voting record (and the fact that he holds the position of Speaker) in the Utah House doesn’t scream “conservative” by any means at all.
Orrin was a moron....
Romney was so bad that he made Hatch look pretty good, you must admit.
Hatch should of been kicked upstairs to SCOTUS after Bork and before he became stale.
Disagree!
Take the Kennedys! (Please!) People for years rolled over and had collective organisms at the slightest mention of the name. I don’t remember a President Ted, do you?
I can cite numerous cases in my state and (other states!) Senate and Congressional delegations where progeny had an in and were the talk of the town so to speak. (Think of the wives that took over hubby’s seats! Many examples!) There was plenty of opposition on the ballot. I see it in the state legislature.
Blaming everything on secret cabals misses the point. The electorate is fundamentally lazy. They don’t vote on issues unless they’re tied to an issue emotionally but on name recognition. Example: Casey in Pa many still thought they were voting for his father! In WV the Mollohan family owned a congressional seat until the last Mighty Mollohan became so corrupt it was hard not to notice. Unionista Rats dwindled in number to such a point that his corruption finally became an issue even they had to pay attention too. (Demographics dramatically changed in WV. The older union or bust Rats died off!) However, we’re now seeing efforts by GOP’ers to establish dynastic footholds on elected offices - case in point the Moore family! Arch A Moore who was a GOP governor twice. (Who also went to jail for land fraud! You would think that would sink the family ambition! It didn’t!) His daughter was a congresscritter reelected multiple times. (Always had primary opposition!) & reelected to the Senate twice again with primary opposition. Every reelection she moves to the left, but that’s another discussion. She has 2 or 3 sons in the state legislature. One running for the governorship, the other eyeing mommy’s Senate seat. Again, all opposed in primaries, but people recognize the name and vote for the name!
Invoking the image of these cartels is superficial thinking. They don’t go into the booth and pull the lever for the voter. The voter does it all on his own because he\she is very lazy!
Repeal the 17th Amendment! State legislatures couldn’t do worse!
Term limits!
Agree!
Hatch was a prime example of being in office way way past his sell by date. Poster boy for both term limits and repeal of the 17th Amendment!
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