{"id":2023971,"date":"2023-09-06T20:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T00:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celeste-maloy-wins-special-house-primary-to-replace-retiring-utah-rep-chris-stewart\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T20:20:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T00:20:03","slug":"celeste-maloy-wins-special-house-primary-to-replace-retiring-utah-rep-chris-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celeste-maloy-wins-special-house-primary-to-replace-retiring-utah-rep-chris-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"Celeste Maloy triumphs in special House primary, replacing retiring Utah Rep. Chris Stewart."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fceleste-maloy-wins-special-house-primary-to-replace-retiring-utah-rep-chris-stewart%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2023971&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Attorney Celeste\u2063 Maloy Wins GOP Special Primary for Utah\u2019s 2nd Congressional District<\/h2>\n<p>Exciting news!\u200d Attorney \u2062Celeste Maloy has emerged victorious in the GOP special primary for Utah\u2019s 2nd Congressional District. This paves the way for her to replace Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) \u200dafter he steps down from Congress\u200c later this\u200d month.<\/p>\n<p>Maloy\u200b secured her \u200cspot in the general\u2064 election with an impressive 38% of the vote, as the race was called almost a day after the\u2062 polls closed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, \u200cMaloy had won the Republican nomination \u2062during the state\u2019s GOP convention \u200cin June. \u200cHowever, she faced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-republican-leader-slams-marjorie-taylor-greene-a-cancer-for-the-republican-party\/\" title=\"Top Republican Leader Slams Marjorie Taylor Greene: A \u2018Cancer For The Republican Party\u2019\">primary election<\/a> against former state Rep. \u200dBecky Edwards and former\u200c Utah \u2062GOP Chairman Bruce Hough, \u2063who had gathered enough signatures to appear on the ballot. Notably, Maloy received the endorsement of Stewart himself, as she had served as his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-different-kind-of-gun-grabbing\/\" title=\"A Different Kind of Gun-Grabbing\">chief legal counsel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If Maloy emerges victorious in the general election,\u200c it will be a historic moment. She will become the first female candidate to represent the 2nd Congressional District since 1997. This district encompasses a\u2062 significant portion of the\u2062 western area of the \u200bstate, stretching from the outskirts of Salt Lake City all the way down to St. \u200cGeorge in the south.<\/p>\n<p>With the \u2064seat being considered safely Republican, Maloy is highly likely to win in \u2062the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-legislatures-plan-to-cut-nashville-council-in-half-temporarily-halted-by-court\/\" title=\"Tennessee Legislature\u2019s Plan to Cut Nashville Council in Half Temporarily Halted by Court\">general election scheduled<\/a> for November.<\/p>\n<h3>Stewart&#8217;s Retirement and \u200bMaloy&#8217;s Future Opponent<\/h3>\n<p>In late May,\u2064 Rep. \u200cChris Stewart announced \u200chis retirement from\u2062 his \u2062House seat. He cited \u2062his wife\u2019s health as the reason for\u200b his early departure from the position \u200dhe has held\u2064 for 10 years. On September\u2062 15, \u2062the six-term lawmaker will officially step down from Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Maloy will now face Democratic candidate Kathleen \u2062Riebe in\u200b the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celeste-maloy-wins-special-house-primary-to-replace-retiring-utah-rep-chris-stewart\/\" title=\"Celeste Maloy triumphs in special House primary, replacing retiring Utah Rep. Chris Stewart.\">general special \u2064election<\/a> on November 21.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click here to \u2063read more from The Washington Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney Celeste Maloy secured victory in the GOP special primary for Utah&#8217;s 2nd Congressional District. She is set to replace Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) when he leaves Congress this month. Maloy clinched the nomination with around 38% of the vote, as the race was called after nearly a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2023972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}