Incumbent U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) will face two Republican opponents in Utah’s June 28 primary in what could turn out to be his most challenging re-election bid in nearly a decade.
In 2010, Lee sailed into office on a Tea Party wave to defeat three-term Sen. Bob Bennett in the Republican primary.
He was reelected in 2016, trouncing Democrat rival Misty Snow with nearly 68 percent of the vote.
Lee has stiff opposition in Republican candidates Becky Edwards, a former Utah state representative, and business executive Ally Isom.
However, Utah freshman Sen. Mitt Romney, who launched an unsuccessful presidential run in 2016, has yet to endorse either candidate, saying he is friends with all three, according to news sources….