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President Trump has refused to concede the election and claimed, without evidence, that widespread voter fraud cost him the election.
Democratic President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were declared winners Saturday morning by the Associated Press and a slew of other major news outlets. President Donald Trump has refused to concede the race and has filed multiple lawsuits, citing unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud and irregularities. The Trump campaign and White House have thus far not presented evidence of fraud widespread enough to impact the results of the election.
Here’s how Utah’s mostly Republican congressional delegation is responding.
As surrounding states in the West continue to trend Democratic, will Utah remain a red stronghold? Or will it eventually become overtaken in an emerging sea of blue?
That’s what’s at stake for Utah Republicans in the race for the Utah GOP’s next chairperson, a position largely off the radar of a public consumed by COVID-19 updates and the promise of better weather. Yet when delegates make their selection from five candidates at this weekend’s state convention, it will help determine the future of their party and its influence on Utah politics, said Derek Brown, the state GOP’s outgoing chairman, who announced last month he wouldn’t be seeking another term to spend more time with his family.
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SALT LAKE CITY The first lady Dr. Jill Biden is scheduled to visit Salt Lake City on Wednesday, according to a news release from the White House on Friday.
The purpose of her visit has not yet been released.
Biden s last visit to Salt Lake City was during a campaign in the 2020 Presidential Election at the University of Utah s law school in January 2020. She promoted her husband, then-Democratic candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, as the candidate who could unite the country and defeat President Donald Trump. Biden also promoted former Utah Rep. Ben McAdams, who at the time was the only Democrat serving Utah in Congress.
If you were to imagine a czar, in the traditional, Russian sense, Wayne Niederhauser’s image probably wouldn’t come to mind. Which may be why Utah’s new homeless services coordinator doesn’t like the informal title of “homeless czar.”
“That’s a negative. That’s not my style of leadership,” he told me when I asked if he was comfortable with the name.
Indeed, that’s true. The term implies an emperor; an all-powerful ruler most commonly associated with the leadership of imperial Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Niederhauser is a certified public accountant and a real estate broker, an affable and mild-mannered sort whose style is to bring people together and search for common ground.