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Mitt Romney seemed to be on a smooth path to Utah's U.S. Senate seat, with the backing of President Donald Trump, the blessing of retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch, R, and a popularity unique to the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Delegates at the GOP's state convention denied Romney their nomination as Mike Kennedy, a three-term state representative who entered the race just weeks earlier, edged out the establishment favorite with 50.88 percent of the vote to 49.12 percent.
As Republican voters in Utah's 3rd District begin trekking to the polls Tuesday morning, no one is certain who among the three hard-charging candidates will emerge the primary with the GOP standard to succeed former Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz in the special election November 7. Since the 3rd District was created in 1981, it has sent only one Democrat to the U.S. House. That was the late centrist Democrat Bill Orton, who won the seat in a major upset in 1990.
The Salt Lake Tribune Tanner Ainge, John Curtis, and Chris Herrod. During the 3rd congressional district candidate debate at the Covey Center for the Arts in Provo on July 11, 2017.