Consider this: Lyle Mason received 62% of the convention vote, which would have given him the nomination outright in the pre-SB54 world. But Ray Ward submitted the required 1,000 signatures and easily defeated Mason in the primary election by 20 points.
Andrew Badger was one of the candidates that performed better at the Utah Republican Convention than with voters last Tuesday.The term “RINO” is slung around frequently by Republican party die-hards as an insult toward candidates who stray from the party orthodoxy or are deemed not conservative enough on issues. Sen. Mitt Romney is a frequent target of the taunt.
Part of those results could be the difficulty of defeating an incumbent member of Congress. But that does not explain a similar phenomenon on Tuesday that saw Republican legislative and school board candidates who earned a spot in the primary courtesy of convention delegates also losing at the polls.GOP Rep. Ray Ward would be a lame-duck right now if not for SB54, the law which allows candidates to petition their way into the primary.
Tuesday’s results should not be seen as rejecting the right-wing MAGA crowd in favor of the status quo. Instead, says BYU political scientist Adam Brown, GOP voters picked mainstream conservatism over a far-right approach. “That’s still a solid win, but also an indicator that more mainstream primary voters were less enthusiastic about him than the more extreme voters who go to convention,” Brown said.On the whole, more mainstream conservative candidates performed much better in Tuesday’s primary.
Ronald Mortensen defeated incumbent Rep. Melissa Garff Ballard at the Davis County convention with 57% of the vote, advancing him to the primary election. He could only muster 35% in Tuesday’s primary election.
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