As Sen. Mitt Romney took the stage at last year’s Utah Republican Convention, the crowd erupted into a chorus of boos and shouts of “traitor” and “communist.” The hate came after Romney voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump. Gov. Spencer Cox also caught a smattering of boos for supporting COVID-19 restrictions.
At Saturday’s Republican Convention in Sandy, Romney and Cox might find themselves even further from their party’s favor. Last year when the boos rained down, outgoing party chair Derek Brown scolded delegates to “show respect” for Romney and silenced the crowd.
This year the party chair is Carson Jorgensen, a sheep rancher who recently went on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program, where Carlson claimed that “Spencer Cox and Mitt Romney aren’t simply liberals who are working for the agenda of the Democratic Party. They have unmasked undisguised contempt for Republican voters.”
“We have to be careful with this kind of woke ideology,” Jorgensen responded.
We’ll know how far the Utah Republican base has moved to the right after Saturday’s convention, in part based on how several candidates with extreme views fare among the state’s GOP delegates.
Several Republicans hoping to reach the June primary — or win the Utah Republican Party’s nomination outright — at Saturday’s state convention have fully...
The Animal Rescue League of Iowa warns pet owners about scammers posing as representatives and demanding money to reclaim lost pets DES MOINES, Iowa — The Animal Rescue League of Iowa has issued a ...