The difference between Jen Plumb and Derek Kitchen is now just 51 votes.
Sen. Derek Kitchen, left, trailed challenger Jennifer Plumb by 51 votes Friday in their chase for the Democratic nomination for Utah's Senate District 9.Challenger Jen Plumb’s lead over state Sen. Derek Kitchen shrank Friday after shea day earlier in the gripping Democratic primary battle for Senate District 9.
Clusters of votes dumped by Salt Lake County election officials late Friday morning showed Plumb leading Kitchen by 51 votes, down from the 63-vote edge she held Thursday.in a contest that will likely determine who represents Utah’s most liberal Senate district on Capitol Hill for the next four years. The winner will face write-in candidate Vance Hansen in November.
The political slugfest between Plumb and Kitchen is a rematch of the 2018 Democratic runoff for what was then Senate District 2. Plumb, a pediatric emergency department doctor, lost that race by 550 votes. Kitchen, a small-business owner who coasted to a general election victory after securing the nomination that year, is coming off a legislative session that saw himHe campaigned for a chance at a second term by telling voters he better represents them because he is the only millennial in the Senate and only openly queer lawmaker on Utah’s Capitol Hill.
Plumb, meanwhile, contended she would be a more effective senator because she has experience outside of the Legislature shepherding into law liberal causes like naloxone access and syringe exchanges.
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