Outside PACs are bombarding delegates with negative ads Published: April 16, 2024, 7:39 p.m. MDT By Brigham Tomco Utah’s competitive Senate Republican primary just got dirtier. A shadowy political action committee bombarded state GOP delegates with negative ads over the last week. The flurry of direct mail and text messages attacked U.S. Senate candidates Rep. John Curtis and Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs with tabloid-ready headlines emphasizing disloyalty to former President Donald Trump. Hometown Freedom Action Network, an opaque super PAC based…
Could a Trump endorsement decide the Utah Senate race?
By Brigham Tomco Brigham L. Tomco is a staff writer on the politics team covering Utah’s congressional delegation, governor and state legislature. The campaign event at Riverton High School Thursday night had all the trappings of a Donald Trump rally minus the man himself. A crowd, several hundred strong, speckled with several dozen MAGA-red ball caps, clapped and cheered for U.S. Senate candidate Trent Staggs as he took the stage alongside the self-described “Trumpiest Congressman,”…