The primary duel between GOP factions will test whether Trump's influence and appeal have grown among Republican voters in Utah.
FILE - Mitt Romney smiles during a campaign event, June 20, 2018, in American Fork, Utah . Republican voters in Utah will decide on Tuesday, June 25, 2024, whether the state's most famous moderate conservative, retiring U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney , will be succeeded by someone just as willing to challenge GOP hardliners or a farther-right candidate who pledges to fall in line with former President Donald Trump .
A suburban mayor, Trent Staggs, who rode Trump’s endorsement to a GOP convention nomination for Romney's seat, is hoping it will also propel him past U.S. Rep. John Curtis, the more moderate front-runner in Tuesday’s primary. Another candidate for the seat, former state House Speaker Brad Wilson, has the financial advantage after loaning his campaign $3 million. He was considered a strong contender before a loss to Staggs at the April convention relegated him to a long shot in the primary. Jason Walton, who has pitched himself as a businessman in the style of Trump, is also running.
Lyman is best known for organizing an illegal ATV ride in 2014 to protest federal officials closing a southeast Utah canyon to motorized vehicles to protect Native American cliff dwellings, artifacts and burial sites. A judge in 2015 sentenced him to 10 days in jail and three years of probation after a jury found him guilty of misdemeanor illegal use of ATVs and conspiracy. Trump later pardoned him in December 2020.
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