Jenny Wilson decided to run for federal office, she said Thursday, primarily out of frustration with the way Utah’s senators and members of Congress tend to vote in lockstep with each other, and with Republican leadership.
A 6-0 block on issues like health care, immigration and public lands, Wilson said, shuts out the dissenting views of Utah constituents who are outside, and sometimes inside, the state’s predominant conservative ideology.
“Until you get balanced government,” she said, “you’re not going to have balanced solutions.”
But in deciding which seat to pursue, Wilson said there were a number of factors that pushed her toward a Senate race.