Democratic committee targeting Utah Rep. Mia Love's seat [View all]
SALT LAKE CITY — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is targeting an additional 11 races nationwide in 2018, including Utah's 4th District seat held by Republican Rep. Mia Love.
Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, a Democrat, recently announced he's running for the seat held by Love. She won the then-open seat in 2014, after former Rep. Jim Matheson, the last Democrat to represent Utah in Congress, retired.
The new additions to Democrats' "offensive battlefield" were made after big wins for Democratic candidates in the Virginia and New Jersey governor's races, the party's first major wins since President Donald Trump took office.
"The DCCC has successfully built the largest battlefield in over a decade, with strong campaigns ready to win tough races across the map in 2018,” according to a memo from the committee's chairman, Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M.
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