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Poll: Lee is the lone Utah GOP candidate getting under 50% of votes [1]

['Michael Houck']

Date: 2022-09-19 23:32:22+00:00

SALT LAKE CITY — A recent poll for Utah’s congressional elections hints at another GOP landslide — with the exception of one race.

According to the Utah Debate Commission, a Lighthouse Research & Development, Inc. survey asked about 500 voters in each congressional district who they would vote for if races started on Sept. 16.

In CD-1, Rep. Blake Moore (R) is about 29% over the challenger Rick Jones (D), with 312 pollsters saying they would vote for Moore. Approximately 6% said they are undecided or other.

In CD-4, Burgess Owens (R) also has a significant lead over his challenger Darlene McDonald (D), with Owens polling at 57.14% and Jones grabbing 30.36%. Third-party candidate for the United Utah party, January Walker, got 6.15%, and 6.35% were undecided.

Meanwhile, other districts are seeing GOP candidates closer to the 50-percent mark, according to the Utah Debate Commission survey.

CD-3 Rep. John Curtis (R) polled 51.39% of pollsters, with the rest of the challengers spreading out the votes. Glenn Wright (D) is second with 26.79%, with third-party candidates like Aaron Heineman for the Independent American party and Michael Stoddard for the Libertarian party getting about 5% of pollsters’ votes.

CD-2 is another race with two third-party candidates getting 4 to 5% of pollsters’ votes. Rep. Chris Stewart (R) polled 50.20%, while Nick Mitchell (D) got 30.91%. About 8.27% of pollsters were undecided.

But the race grabbing Utah’s attention is Sen. Mike Lee’s seat.

According to the survey, Lee is only at 48.13%, with 245 pollsters saying they would vote for him. While there is no Democrat challenger for the seat, third-party Evan McMullin polled at 37.33% with 190 pollsters. Other third-party candidates polled around 4%, with 5% of pollsters being undecided.

Utah Debate Commission said the survey does have a margin of error of around 4.35% for each race.

Sen. Mitt Romney’s seat will be up for election in 2024. Romney is the only U.S. Senator that did not support Lee for re-election.

The Utah Debate Commission will hold debates for all the races in October in different universities across the state;

CD-1 on October 10th at 6 p.m. at Weber State University: Blake Moore (Republican) Rick Jones (Democrat)

CD-2 on October 14th at 6 p.m. at Southern Utah University: Cassie Easley (Constitution) Nick Mitchell (Democrat) Chris Stewart (Republican)

CD-3 on October 6th at 6 p.m. at Brigham Young University: John Curtis (Republican) Glenn Wright (Democrat)

CD-4 on October 12th at 6 p.m. at the University of Utah: Darlene McDonald (Democrat) Burgess Owens (Republican) January Walker (United Utah)

U.S. Senate on October 17th at 6 p.m. at Utah Valley University: Mike Lee (Republican) Evan McMullin (Unaffiliated)



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