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These Utah congressional candidates know they probably won’t win. Here’s why they’re running anyway.

By Salt Lake Tribune · October 30, 2026 · 1 min read
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Robert Moesinger knows running for Congress as an unaffiliated candidate is, as he put it, “admittedly a little bit crazy.” Independent and third-party candidates have rarely found electoral success in Utah. Moesinger knew that, he said, when he chose to run in the newly drawn 2nd Congressional District, which contains much of northern Utah.

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