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Attorney Larry Meyers has announced that he will campaign for the Utah Republican Party nomination for the United States Senate. The announcement came yesterday around 7 AM in a short Facebook post to his followers in the campaign.

The Utah Standard News had the announcement:

“It’s time for a fresh face in the Senate,” Meyers said. “We need someone who represents the working class, with traditional values. I will be a strong voice supporting President Trump’s agenda and fighting for the people of Utah, rather than for the rich and powerful.” Meyers is a graduate of Brigham Young University and the BYU Law School and previously worked as a prosecuting attorney in Washington County. As the former chairman of the Southwestern Special Service District, he has experience in balancing budgets and providing local community services. Meyers has also served as a Republican county party officer and state central committee member, as well as being elected as a Utah GOP National Delegate in 2008 and 2016. “My top priorities are securing our borders, cleaning up scandal-plagued federal agencies (such as the BLM and the FBI), cutting spending, balancing the budget, defunding Planned Parenthood, eliminating Common Core, and returning Utah’s public lands back to the State of Utah,” Meyers declared.

The platform he is running on is fairly conservative for a Republican and definitely Trumpian influenced. His immigration platform for instance is very nationalist:

I support securing our borders and enforcing our laws. People must be accountable for their illegal actions. Giving legal status to illegal aliens is wrong because it rewards law breaking, is unfair to those trying to come here legally, encourages more illegal immigration, and is the first step to having millions more Democrat voters. Unlike the incumbent, I will oppose any form of amnesty for those who have entered or remained in our nation illegally. They should return home and apply to return legally.

Utah has a dual track system for a candidate to qualify to get on the ballot.

In one method, a candidate can simply collect enough signatures and pay a fee to appear.

The other method is to go to the state convention and be nominated as the nominee to appear on the primary ballot.

All qualifying candidates will appear on the primary set for the fourth Tuesday in June (26th). The winner of the primary will move on to the general election in November. The primary winner is the candidate that receives the most votes and there is no runoff election.

The method Mitt Romney is likely to take in this election is to get as many primary opponents as possible against him, to dilute the conservative votes, so he can sail through with as little as 20% of the vote.

It is the same method that Lindsey Graham supported in his own race that saw him win reelection. No one candidate got enough traction to take the others out or to focus on Lindsey Graham himself.

Hopefully, someone like this candidate, Larry Meyers, can focus the voters on the absolute disaster a Mitt Romney candidacy will be given his past behavior and extremely liberal positions.

And finally, fundraising will be key in this race given the high likelihood of Romney donating a small fortune of his own money to buy him this Senate seat. Larry Meyers will need to demonstrate the ability to fund-raise and generate grassroots support in order to defeat a liberal carpetbagger as wealthy as Mitt Romney.

Larry Meyers’ website is here.