UT-PPP: Matheson competitive

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Fool's gold.  Not that we know what his new seat is going to look like (or do we?  I haven't been following), but he'd be throwing away a somewhat safe House seat in order to maybe win a Senate seat, concurrently with a presidential election that may very well feature a Mormon at the top of the GOP ticket.

We don't know, but all of the Republican proposals so far have continued to crack Salt Lake City, so it's not like Matheson would have a safe district.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

I just don't see this happening unless Chaffetz turns out to be deeply flawed (like, indictment-level flawed). He's a nut, to be sure, but Utah has no problem electing a nut as long as there's an R by their name.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Chaffetz narrowly leads in the primary:

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