SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Three gubernatorial candidates will face off in a debate at Salt Lake Community College tonight. Here’s what you can expect.
The debate is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. and feature incumbent Gov. Spencer Cox, who is the Republican candidate; Brian Smith King, who is the Democratic candidate; and J. Robert Latham, who is the Libertarian candidate.
ABC4.com reached out to the campaigns for the candidates participating in the Sept. 11 debate to see what viewers could expect from their candidates.
The Cox campaign has yet to respond to ABC4.com’s requests for comment.
The King campaign responded with the following:
Representative King will highlight why he is the right choice for Utahns. So many people feel like the chaos of the Republican party no longer represents them. We are building a coalition of pragmatists that want to have a governor the looks out for them over party insiders or special interests.
The Latham campaign responded to ABC4.com with the following statement:
The messages our campaign hopes to communicate this evening are those that track what Utahns are most concerned about per the Utah Foundation’s Utah Priorities survey earlier this year.
On government overreach, we want to promote family integrity and end the benevolent terror of the Division of Child and Family Separation.
On politicians not listening to voters and partisan politics, we want to champion proportional ranked choice voting as a way for more Utahns to have a voice in their state and local governments.
And on housing, we favor the Free to Build initiative to expand available housing, which in turn improves housing affordability.
If Utahns put Rob Latham and Barry Short to work, just as Argentinians have by electing a libertarian president this past year, we can make good progress addressing those concerns.
STATEMENT FROM THE LATHAM CAMPAIGN ON THE SEPT. 11 DEBATE
Other candidates for governor who will appear on the November ballot, according to the general election certification from the office of Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, include Tommy Williams, Independent; and Tom Tomeny, Unaffiliated.
Phil Lyman is in the running as a write-in candidate, with Richard Lyman — who is unrelated to Phil Lyman — running as an unaffiliated write-in candidate with his mother as a candidate for Lt. Gov.