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SALT LAKE CITY — Nearly 4,000 Republican delegates swarmed the Salt Palace in downtown Salt Lake City on Saturday morning to pick GOP nominees in races from Utah governor to state school board.
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Many of the morning sessions were delayed by more than an hour because of delays with the credentialing process or problems with the electronic voting system.
Delegates were buzzing shortly after the doors opened to the convention hall because of a last-minute endorsement from former President Donald Trump for U.S. Senate candidate Trent Staggs.
“Trent Staggs is 100% MAGA, and is running to fill The Mitt Romney, a Total Loser, Seat as the next Senator from the Great State of Utah!,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
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Written by BRYAN SCHOTT and EMILY ANDERSON STERN, The Salt Lake Tribune.
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