Orem • The Utah Republican Party’s next chairman will be Derek Brown, following a decisive election victory Saturday at the party’s organizing convention at Utah Valley University.
Brown, a former state lawmaker who previously worked as deputy chief of staff to Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, earned 62 percent of the delegates’ vote on a single round of voting that included four candidates.
In his convention remarks, Brown described himself as the “keep Utah red guy,” saying the Republican Party’s message is somewhat lost on younger generations, and pointing to conservative setbacks in the Intermountain West and Salt Lake County during the 2018 midterm election.