Surrounded by friends, family and campaign staff at “campaign headquarters” — her Provo home — Kaufusi and her team cheered as the first wave of results came in, showing her with an initial lead of more than 10 points over her opponent, Sherrie Hall Everett.
“I’m feeling good but unsettled because this vote by mail is so different,” she said. But if the results hold, she said, “it will be fantastic. That will be unbelievably historically… I mean, just fantastic.”
“We’re optimistic. We feel like we’re a little bit in Groundhog Day because it’s how the first votes rolled out in the primary and we gained momentum as the later votes rolled in,” she said, adding “It’s not over yet.