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Utah Rep. Burgess Owens — who has filed for bankruptcy protection five times — is against President Biden's student loan forgiveness program, saying, "debt cannot be canceled."
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“I’m not terribly popular with my party in the state of Utah,”
@SenatorRomney
said. “But that consequence is nowhere near as great as the consequence of violating your own conscience.”
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Utah Sen. Mike Lee vehemently disputes that he was a participant in the plot to keep Donald Trump in office. Recently released court documents could prove problematic for Lee’s defense.
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The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board believes we need to call migrant camps what they really are — concentration camps
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Newly released text messages show Utah Sen. Mike Lee knew of the scheme to send alternate electors to Congress nearly a month earlier than he claimed.
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“Mike Lee is not a politician. He’s a criminal suspect,” said former officer Michael Fanone.
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Utah Democrats voted on Saturday to support independent candidate Evan McMullin, rather than a member of their own party, in an effort to unseat Republican U.S. Senator Mike Lee.
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Luis Gustavo Lopez, 18, is in intensive care after a man walked into his family's tire shop, said “I’m here to kill a Mexican,” and beat Lopez with a metal bar.
The Lopez family blames at least some of the attacker's motivation on President Donald Trump.
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The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board praises
@SenatorRomney
for his decision to vote to convict.
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It has everything to do with recognizing:
• Hatch’s part in dismantling two national monuments.
• His role in passing a major overhaul of the nation’s tax code.
• His utter lack of integrity that rises from his unquenchable thirst for power.
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A former Salt Lake City police officer has been arrested by the FBI for taking part in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
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"Sen. Hatch, what will you try to sell next just to get re-elected, the Grand Canyon? Perhaps the Mormon Temple? It’s clear to almost everyone here (Republicans, independents and Democrats alike) that you’ve sold your soul and lost your way."
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“I sorry, Mommy. Mommy hugs, I scared. I don’t like it. Mommy!”
This 3-year-old, reacting as he was put on a ventilator, is among almost 140 Utah children under age 14 who were reported hospitalized with COVID-19 in the past two weeks.
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Utah Sen. Mike Lee, who tried to help Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election, took campaign donations from fake electors in Arizona.
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“From the news clips I have seen, the protesters across from the White House were orderly and nonviolent. They should not have been removed by force and without warning,"
@SenatorRomney
said.
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In the day between Sundance announcing a documentary about Brett Kavanaugh and the movie's premiere, its filmmakers say they received more tips about the Supreme Court justice's alleged misconduct.
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The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board stands in favor of the impeachment inquiry
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Donald Trump gave a two-hour speech “in which he raved like a lunatic and told crazy, self-serving lies from start to finish. If that no longer qualifies as alarming, we’re in serious trouble,” Washington Post columnist
@Eugene_Robinson
writes.
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Brent Taylor, mayor of North Ogden and a Utah National Guardsman, has been killed in Afghanistan in an apparent insider attack.
Taylor was deployed as part of an advisory team training staff in an Afghan commando battalion.
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Salt Lake County council member Dave Alvord says unborn babies are not part of a mother’s body because the umbilical cord and placenta do not connect directly to the woman.
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Poll: By a 2-1 margin Utahns want
@jasoninthehouse
to investigate Trump's potential conflicts of interest
#utpol
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Jennifer Rubin: “Given that the two senators lied to the faces of interviewers on the Sunday talk shows, network bookers might consider never having them on air again”
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.
@RepChrisStewart
a Utah Republican who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, said that it would be “foolish” not to take information from a foreign government pertaining to an election campaign
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Robert Gehrke: “It is clear — and becoming clearer with each rock that gets turned over — that Lee, at a minimum, attempted to subvert democracy and, for the only time in our history, put an unelected president in power.”
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Utah hunting guide Wade lemon faces 5 years in prison for the death of a bear. But according to the DNR, Lemon didn’t pull the trigger — Donald Trump Jr. did.
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BREAKING: One of the officers who questioned Gabby Petito in Moab weeks before she was killed by her boyfriend was “fundamentally biased” against her — and because of that, he failed to accurately assess the danger she faced, according to a lawsuit.
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“Utah’s Chris Stewart and Burgess Owens share the blame for acts of insurrection,” The Tribune’s Editorial Board writes.
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The officers allege newly revealed text messages detailing Mike Lee’s efforts to help former President Donald Trump reverse his 2020 election loss suggest he was trying to cover up his involvement.
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The "Lions Not Sheep" apparel company was fined more than $200,000 for cutting labels that said items were made in China and stamping them "Made in USA."
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"Democrats, who the day before yesterday were insisting that voter fraud didn't exist, now believe that it was used to steal a North Carolina congressional seat from them — and they may well be right," writes
@RichLowry
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"I wish that [
@realDonaldTrump
's] family or his administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at her weekly news conference
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"It's the guns. It’s not mental health. It’s not illegal immigration. It’s not the breakdown of the family unit, the decline of organized religion, violent video games or movies or schools that present themselves as “soft targets.”
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Endangered California condors have been spotted in Sequoia National Park for the first time in nearly 50 years.
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“He is wrong to say that the election was rigged, corrupt and stolen,”
@SenatorRomney
said on Twitter and Facebook on Friday morning. “Doing so damages the cause of freedom here and around the world."
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Utah nurse arrested for blocking cop from drawing blood from patient receives $500,000 settlement
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Bernie Sanders is the front-runner for Utah’s Democratic presidential primary on March 3 — doubling the percentage of support from his nearest rival in a huge field. But one of every five likely voters is still undecided.
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We won a Pulitzer today for a groundbreaking investigation of rape at Utah colleges. Read the series here.
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The Utah Attorney General's office will suspend the use of a massive surveillance system after news reports surfaced that the founder of the company was once an active white supremacist and was involved in the shooting of a synagogue.
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“I’m a man who says what he means, and you know I was not a fan of our last president’s character issues,” Romney said as delegates attempted to shout him down.
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The
@sltrib
is now a nonprofit news organization — the first U.S. legacy newspaper to make such a transition. Here is what it means for readers.
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Video: Utah nurse arrested & dragged screaming into police car after refusing to take blood from unconscious victim
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President Trump is an “incredible medical doctor,” and he has the certificate to prove it — via
@patbagley
.
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“People say, ‘I want my liberty.’ Well, your liberty affects my health. When that occurs, we have to come to some sort of agreement,” Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said during a wide-ranging visit with The Tribune’s editorial board.
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Park City resident
@SteveSchmidtSES
renounced his affiliation with the Republican Party in 2018 over the Trump administration separating migrant families at the border. He has registered as a Utah Democrat and has talked of running against
@SenMikeLee
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Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford noted that there has been no evidence of voter fraud in his state and that Utah Attorney General
@SeanReyesUT
needs to “mind his business."
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Nearly 40% of Republican voters cast a primary ballot for someone other than Mike Lee, which could provide an opening for independent candidate Evan McMullin in November.
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Co-owner of
@UtahGunExchange
, most known for following the Parkland high school students around to counter-protest their calls for gun control, now faces a drug charge. He's also facing felony counts of illegally owning guns.
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“Watching the video of
@DanReynolds
performing for 30,000 screaming fans at
@LOVELOUDfest
, it was impossible not to be struck by how far we’ve come, how fast our society has transformed, and how radically different our future will be,” writes
@RobertGehrke
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Deploying the colors of the transgender pride flag, a group of LGBTQ+ allies lit up Brigham Young University’s iconic “Y” in pink, blue and white on the mountain above BYU on Saturday night.
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A Utah school district has now received a complaint concerning the Book of Mormon — which comes a day after it banned the Bible in some schools.
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In her opinion piece, the granddaughter of the late U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett calls out
@SenMikeLee
for his behavior during Trump's impeachment.
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Don Olsen: "Other Republicans, including Utah’s Sen. Mitt Romney, have found ways to work across the aisle to pass meaningful legislation. That’s what I want in a U.S. Senator. And it’s why I support Evan McMullin."
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Letter: My question to Latter-day Saints is, how can you follow such an immoral human being as Donald Trump when you hold yourselves up to such a high standard of morality? He represents everything you are against.
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Thousands have signed an online petition demanding that LDS apostle Jeffrey R. Holland be disinvited from giving the commencement speech at Southern Utah University because he has “openly opposed LGBTQ+ individuals.”
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Anti-Lee voters should united behind Evan McMullin to have a chance of winning, writes lifelong Democrat Gregg Lund.
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In an unexpected move Tuesday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gave its support to a proposed federal law, which recognizes all legal marriages, including ones between same-sex partners.
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Mark Hamill, best known for his role as Luke Skywalker in the “Star Wars” film franchise, has picked a side in Utah’s U.S. Senate race - and it’s neither red nor blue.
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Even with all the injuries and hardships, Lindsey Vonn's legacy is secure: Best female skier. Ever.
#Pyeongchang2018
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.
@SenatorRomney
says the only way to restore unity in the U.S. is to hold Trump accountable for the attempted insurrection and attack on the U.S. Capitol.
@SchottHappens
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Letter: "Mike Lee never served in the military. When given the opportunity to help those who did through voting for the PACT Act, he was found to be AWOL."
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The complaint urges the IRS to strip the
@ldschurch
's nonprofit investment arm Ensign Peak Advisors of its tax-exempt status, and says Ensign could owe billions in taxes, The Washington Post reported.
@churchnewsroom
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What had been a peaceful pro-Palestine rally at the University of Utah ended violently when officers in riot gear charged at students — knocking them down with shields, dragging some off by their arms or feet, and ripping their tents from the ground.
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After news of lewd video, Jon Huntsman Jr. says Donald Trump should exit presidential race
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Stuart C. Reid: The Republican Party is no longer loyal to its once-prized conservative values of individual responsibility, integrity, morality and thrift. It has become insular, divisive, dishonorable and intemperate.
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Letter: My question to Latter-day Saints is, how can you follow such an immoral human being as Donald Trump when you hold yourselves up to such a high standard of morality? He represents everything you are against.
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“I thought I was going to win too when I ran for president in 2012. I didn’t. I didn’t go out and say ‘fraud,'"
@SenatorRomney
said.
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Letter: Sen. Mitt Romney should donate the $13,647,676 the NRA spent to support his presidential campaign to the Uvalde shooting victims' families, writes Cynthia in Ogden.
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“I want to thank you for giving me this award,”
@PatBagley
said of the National Society of Cartoonists honor. “I aim deeply, deeply flattered to be honored in this way by my peers.”
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"My advice to young people is, travel the world, follow your dreams, have fun, fall in love at least a dozen times, don’t have kids until you are settled, don’t settle until you are ready. And whatever you do, don’t listen to Dallin Oaks."
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Imagine Dragons’
@DanReynolds
gets boost for LGBTQ fundraising concert from an unexpected source: the LDS Church
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Letter: "How can an 8-year-old, in response to years of indoctrination and pressure, make an informed 'decision' to be baptized? How many of our youth are harmed by this practice?"
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Jimmy Kimmel, commenting on KTVX-Channel 4 coverage of an anti-mask protest that went viral, called a Utah woman “the world’s dumbest person” over her comments on mask mandates.
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Federal investigators are looking into how BYU disciplines its LGBTQ students to determine whether the private religious school is violating their civil rights.
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Andrew Bjelland: No supporter of Donald Trump deserves the vote of Utahns.
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The fact that BYU fought so long and so hard to keep its past behavior a secret — clearly hoping that The Tribune would lose interest, tire of legal expenses and go away — shows that continued oversight is called for, the Editorial Board writes.
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Ann Romney will team up with Michelle Obama on prime-time television to encourage people to vote this fall.
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When asked why he was marching Sunday,
@MittRomney
said, "We need a voice against racism. ... We need to stand up and say that Black Lives Matter.”
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“If I lose my race, I lose my race standing for what I believe in,” the senator declared in a remarkable display of political courage.
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Among the highlights of
@LOVELOUDfest
:
@DavidArchie
sang, a former Miss Utah broke her crown to pieces, and
@Anitta
closed the show.
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"The King of Debt's promise to wipe out government debt was always nonsense," writes
@crampell
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.
@utahjazz
center Ekpe Udoh launched Let’s Get Right, a hydroponic farming company aimed at producing fresh vegetables in his native Oklahoma with the idea of helping inner-city schools, malnourished children, and people who simply aren’t as fortunate.
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A group of
@UtahJazz
fans aim to raise $25,000 — the amount Russell Westbrook was fined by the NBA — to be donated to Human Rights Campaign.
The organizer of the fundraiser says he hopes it will “show our true colors.”
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Commentary: Six UVU faculty members share their opposition to Ron DeSantis' appearance at the school this weekend, writing that his views on education "are out of sync with UVU’s mission and values and run counter to the principle of academic freedom."
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The first known photograph of LDS Church founder Joseph Smith has been discovered. See it here and learn more about how and where it was found.
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"Since taking office, Senator Mike Lee has earned a reputation as a principled conservative. He believes elected officials are responsible for keeping the federal government within its constitutionally limited role," writes Sen. Mike Lee.
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Evan McMullin, who won more than 21% of the Utahns’ votes for president in 2016, will challenge Sen. Mike Lee as an independent candidate for Utah’s Senate seat next year, Robert Gehrke reports.
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Sen. Mitt Romney will vote to convict President Trump of abuse of power. He’s expected to be the only Republican to vote guilty on the first article of impeachment.
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Tariffs have boosted some construction costs by nearly 60% since the start of last year, according to Ivory Homes, Utah’s largest homebuilder. The rises in lumber, steel and aluminum costs has hiked its average home prices by $5,000-$9,000.
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After Utah Rep. Burgess Owens questions the patriotism of Democrats, he is ripped by New York Dem. Hakeem Jeffries for trying to overturn election results.
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"It is time to go all-in and vote Mike Lee out of office and replace him with an effective, principled senator who actually respects our democracy and the Constitution of the United States," writes David Bennett of Park City.
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“I hope that [LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson] and the apostles take the time to watch this documentary, to see the faces, to hear the voices, to hear the stories, of these Mormon youth,”
@DanReynolds
told The Tribune.
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"(Trump's) decision to shrink these national monuments & open them up to oil, gas and mining companies is an appalling overreach of his authority. (He) would rather sell off our public lands to the highest bidder than preserve our greatest natural resources." -DNC Chair
@TomPerez
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BREAKING:
#RHOSLC
star Jen Shah was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison on Friday for defrauding thousands of people nationwide in a telemarketing scam, many of them vulnerable or older.
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Sen. Mitt Romney had harsh words for President Donald Trump, saying, "It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American president."
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Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch — who last year asked for more civility in politics — calls Obamacare supporters "the stupidest, dumbass people I’ve ever met"
@SenOrrinHatch
@OrrinHatch
#utpol
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Letter: "Mike Lee is embedded into the Senate, feeding off of the public and giving nothing in return. Two terms are enough. Please join me in digging this tick out of our body politic."
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Stopping at This Is the Place Heritage Park, Sen.
@KamalaHarris
said those early Latter-day Saint pioneers were essentially immigrants.
"They were fleeing persecution," she said. "They were fighting for religious freedom."
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President Trump mocked Sen. Mitt Romney this morning for marching with Black Lives Matter protesters, falsely asserting that the Utah Republican's poll numbers have sunk.
Romney's approval rating has actually risen.
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Declaring a state of emergency because of the recent surge of coronavirus hospitalizations in Utah, Gov. Gary Herbert announced new restrictions, including a statewide mask mandate and limiting social gatherings to people who live in the same household.
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