Indeed, the question now becomes how well Johnson’s message that was embraced by the 4,000 conservative party activists who served as delegates will be received by the broader population of primary voters.
A recent study by the nonpartisan Utah Foundation found that the delegates tend to be considerably more conservative than the general Republican voter pool. But primary voters fall somewhere in the middle, said Steve Kroes, president of the foundation.
“It’s another shade of party zeal, you might say,” Kroes said.
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