Brett Garner: 'First, party leadership can only change — regardless of the people in charge — if those enraged by this year’s results will get off the sidelines this year and engage in 2023′s organization process.'
The Utah Democratic Convention was held at Cottonwood High School in Murray, Utah on Saturday, April 23, 2022.2022 was a particularly poor cycle for the Utah Democratic Party. The U.S. Senate campaign was a cavalcade of failures — unable to get either former Rep. Becky Edwards or Evan McMullin to run as Democrats, then shunting aside candidate Kael Weston.
The most bizarre decision was to spend so much publicity and money on a Utah House District 1 legal technicality fight without any electorally winnable reason to engage in it, or the inventiveness to link it to a larger culture of arrogance and corruption in the monopolized Utah Republican government.
Second, there needs to be long-term planning to get moderates to vote for Democrats. As in 2018, ballot questions that a majority of voters support can be part of this process. With the loss of two Democratic seats in the Utah House, a constitutional amendment banning abortion is likely headed to Utah voters in 2024.
Lastly, Utah Democrats should not give up nominating moderate candidates, but the McMullin campaign showed that abandoning the party is a failed strategy, as it has been for decades, and likely will be in the future for Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Sens. Mark Kelly or Arizona, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Michael Bennet of Colorado —
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