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Unpacking Utah’s primary upsets: The race that’s sending ‘shockwaves’ through the Legislature
When Taylor Morgan saw longtime Senate President Stuart Adams was trailing one of his Republican challengers by more than 8 percentage points in election night results Tuesday night, he said he was “blown away.” “I was genuinely shocked,” Morgan, a political consultant with the Utah-based lobbying and public affairs firm Morgan & May, told Utah News Dispatch on Wednesday, as the dust from the contentious primary was still settling. Morgan had previously predicted based on a variety of polls that Adams was “vulnerable,” but he would ultimately win his Republican ...