SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The internal Democratic Party battle that has emerged in this year’s primaries between progressive and moderate candidates will play out Tuesday in an unlikely place, reliably red Utah.A redraw of U.S. House districts has created a solidly left-leaning seat in the Salt Lake City area, prompting a flood of interest among Democrats.Former U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams, who by one analysis was considered the most conservative House Democrat during his single term in Congress, faces three candidates to his political left in the party’s primary in the 1st District. McAdams has sought to shed his reputation as a moderate, while his opponents have urged each other to drop out and clear a path for Utah to send its first progressive to Washington.The other three of Utah’s four congressional seats are considered safely Republican, including the 3rd District, where Tuesday’s contest for the GOP nomination features a conservative challenger trying to knock off an incumbent congresswoman.
Utah is a rare Republican stronghold where the GOP is expected to lose one of its U.S. House seats following a lengthy legal battle over the previous districts.
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