McAleer wins in 1st District Democratic nomination

Updated: 6/26/2012 9:59 pm | Published: 6/26/2012 8:30 pm

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Donna McAleer and Ryan Combe

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Donna McAleer held onto a large lead to defeat fellow Democrat Ryan Combe in the Utah primary race for the U.S. Congressional District 1 seat on Tuesday.

McAleer was leading over Combe 72 to 27 percent with 84 percent of precincts reporting.

McAleer will face incumbent GOP Representative Rob Bishop in November's general election.

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abc4user - 6/27/2012 11:14 AM

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I wish we did not have secret ballots anymore. Then we could tell who voted for which candidate, so we could ask them exactly why they did it, and then have a talk about their decision-making process. Donna is such a horrible person who mistreated everyone else in the party during this primary, it makes little sense that anyone would vote for her who knew anything at all about this race.

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