Utah voters elected Democrat Ben McAdams to the new First Congressional District. The Associated Press projects McAdams defeating Republican Riley Owen and three other candidates. The former congressman returns to Washington after previously representing Utah from 2019 to 2021. Republican Congressman Blake Moore has a small lead over Democratic challenger […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Former Democratic Congressman Ben McAdams and Republican Riley Owen debated last night as they both seek to represent Utah’s First Congressional District in Salt Lake City. They disagreed about gerrymandering and tariffs, but found common ground on some other issues. McAdams said President Donald Trump […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s primary election has left several familiar faces in first place. In Utah’s 1st Congressional District, former Representative Ben McAdams won the Democratic nomination. He previously served in Congress from 2019 to 2021. Representative Blake Moore fended off a GOP challenge as he runs for […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Ben McAdams is seeking to once again represent Utah as a Democrat in the House of Representatives. He announced his latest campaign yesterday, after a Utah judge redrew congressional maps to add a Democratic-leaning district. Republicans in the state legislature had previously drawn a map […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The hard-fought race for a congressional swing district in Utah remained too early to call on Thursday, with a about 2,300 votes separating the candidates and many left to count. Former NFL player Burgess Owens, a black conservative supporter of President Donald Trump, held the small lead […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican Burgess Owens is refunding and reallocating illegal campaign donations that went above contribution limits. The former Super Bowl winner with the Oakland Raiders challenging first-term Congressman Ben McAdams collected about $135,000 in excess contributions, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The news comes shortly after […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s lone congressional Democrat faced his Republican challenger on the debate stage Monday night as the candidates vie for the closely watched suburban Salt Lake City seat. U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams highlighted times he had voted against his party leadership as he framed himself as […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — On July 16, 1945, the U.S military detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in New Mexico, ushering in the nuclear age. Now on the 75th anniversary of the test code-named Trinity, nuclear weapons continue to be a hot political topic, including in Utah. The Trump administration […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A husband coughing up blood. A sister close to death. Another friend felled by the coronavirus. The beat against Congress has always been that its members are out of touch with average Americans. But that’s not true when it comes to the brutality of COVID-19 and its […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday, an announcement that comes shortly after the first known case in Congress. McAdams said he first became sick with “mild, cold-like symptoms” shortly after returning to Salt Lake City from Washington on Saturday. […]
