This year’s hottest political contest is the Salt Lake City mayor’s race, with eight hopefuls competing to fill an open seat and lead Utah’s capital city.
But elsewhere in the state, 2020 is rapidly approaching as candidates, campaigns and activists position themselves ahead of elections for president, Congress, governor, the Legislature, ballot initiatives and a potential shakeup in the government of Utah’s second-largest county.
On this week’s episode of “Trib Talk,” Tribune government reporters Benjamin Wood, Bethany Rodgers and Taylor Stevens, joined by Tribune columnist Robert Gehrke, sort through the different political questions facing Utah voters in 2019 and beyond.