After 11 hours of political elbowing and shoving at the Utah Republican Convention — held appropriately at a hockey arena — delegates forced Mitt Romney into a primary election against state Rep. Mike Kennedy in the U.S. Senate race.This is excellent news, and suggests Utah isn't anxious to send an anti-Trump champion to the Senate. Rightly or wrongly, Romney is viewed as such.
In fact, Kennedy — a doctor and lawyer — finished in first place at the convention with 51 percent of the vote to Romney’s 49 percent. The former GOP presidential nominee fell far short of the 60 percent needed to clinch the nomination outright.
BTW, most of that "11 hours of political elbowing and shoving" was fighting over proposed party rules changes, only tangentially involving the Romney-Kennedy contest.
