President Joe Biden wins Utah's Super Tuesday primary election, while Utah Republicans favor former President Donald Trump in a chaotic presidential caucus overshadowed by voting system issues.
Super Tuesday: Utah Republicans favor Trump in chaotic presidential caucus overshadowed by voting system issues An official looks at a precinct map with a caucusgoer ahead of the presidential primary caucuses at Riverton High School in Riverton on Tuesday, March 5, 2024.Utah is poised to join the growing list of states where President Joe Biden has fended off Democratic challengers, according to early primary returns posted Tuesday evening.
Biden dominated in Utah with 88% of votes as of late Tuesday night, according to early return tallies from nearly all of Utah’s 29 counties. Axson said the party was still parsing through the totality of technical difficulties that led to voting delays. Part of the problem was that some precincts were “overwhelmed” with the number of people who came out to vote, he said. There were also a number of volunteers who didn’t show up, Axson added, and a lack of help and information in those precincts caused the situation to get “out of control.
”So when people come up, either their voter ID doesn’t seem to load even though they’ve been voting for a long time,” he said, “or when we try and look them up by their name and address, that’s not coming up either.” “And I didn’t know that,” she said. “I think the Republican Party did a disservice to us by not helping us understand what was actually happening.”
One couple who attended the Riverton caucus said they’d first gone to Herriman High School, were sent from there to Draper, and from there to Riverton — only to be told that they should be caucusing at Herriman. “These results show what I’ve been hearing on the ground every day: Democrats are fired up and ready to re-elect the Biden-Harris ticket in November,” Utah Democratic Party Chair Diane Lewis wrote in a statement. “We simply cannot afford to have Donald Trump and his MAGA extremist movement back in the White House. We know what’s at stake in this election: our personal freedoms, our economy, and our democracy.
Haley is fighting an uphill battle against the former president, and Trump has defeated her in every primary election so far, except the District of Columbia. “Schools teaching things that I don’t like my kids learning about at a young age is a big focus,” she said.
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