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As legal fight continues over Utah’s court-ordered electoral map, one Republican announces a run
An ousted Salt Lake County Republican Party communications director who is currently suing a handful of GOP officials in the state is the first candidate from his party to jump into the race for a new, blue congressional district. Dave Robinson announced his candidacy Thursday, saying in a news release that he is running for the unique district as an “alternative to the political establishment’s ‘uniparty’ and extreme activist candidates.” His declaration comes days after two of Utah’s all-Republican congressional delegation, Reps. Celeste Maloy and Burgess Owens, filed a ...