Posted on 04/26/2022 6:00:39 AM PDT by cotton1706
One of Utah’s freshman congressmen narrowly survived the Republican 2022 Nominating Convention, failing to secure his party’s nomination and setting the stage for a primary election in June to appear on the November ballot.
Rep. Blake Moore, who was elected to his first term representing Utah’s 1st Congressional District in 2020, will move on to the Utah primary on June 28 to face Andrew Badger, who on Saturday almost clinched the Republican nomination during the convention over the weekend. Moore joins the rest of his Republican counterparts, as each incumbent in Utah will face a primary election in their reelection efforts.
In the northern Utah 1st Congressional District, winning the GOP nomination is tantamount to election to the House because the seat strongly favors Republicans.
After three rounds of balloting by state delegates during the nomination convention, Moore walked away with 40.7% of the vote compared to Badger’s 59.2%, just 0.8 percentage points shy of securing the nomination. Moore's campaign said the incumbent had already planned to gear up for a primary election because Republican challenger Tina Cannon qualified for the ballot via signature-gathering in April.
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I’m proud to say my second cousin represents her county in the convention and had a hand in this. She doesn’t suffer fools gladly and neither do her constituents.
A Romney stooge!
Good, throw the bum out.
State Department background. That means deep state. Gotta be stupid. Everyone knows ho attached we are to Trump These people think they’re smarter than everyone.
Tina’s a looker. Those things count. The other challenger is hunky. All things being equal we go for the looker. I don’t know who is more conservative.
This is a good indicator of what is coming on Nov.
Good point.
Bwahahaha! I hope they toss this DSer.
wow, that is indeed great news.
nice, it takes people on the ground to do this.
“This is a good indicator of what is coming on Nov.”
I sure hope so.
The story is poorly written, unless you everybody already. Did 40%er, or the 60%er, support rom ey and (his) Jan 6 show trial?
Maybe Delecto will campaign with this guy :-)
“The story is poorly written, unless you everybody already. Did 40%er, or the 60%er, support rom ey and (his) Jan 6 show trial?”
The incumbent, Moore, who voted for the Jan 6 committee, got 40%, versus the challenger, Badger. who got nearly 60%.
Had the challenger gotten 60%, he would have been the nominee, but there will now be a primary.
Yes it is. And conservatives are starting to realize that primaries are just as, if not more, important than the general election.
If you don't want an establishment RINO bum going up against the establishment Democrat in Novemeber, you have to participate in the primaries and vote for the MAGA candidates.
Thank you! That is what I thought I read.
And today’s “journalists” need to take 4 years of college to learn how to write that poorly!
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