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# Five days to Utah's primary election, and everybody's losing it
- URL: https://utahpolitics.news/podcasts/five-days-to-utahs-primary-election-and-everybodys-losing-it/
- Published: 2026-06-19T20:53:48.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-19T20:56:00.000Z
- Author: Bryan Schott
- Tags: Podcasts

The June 23 primary is just around the corner, and this week's podcast is packed with what you need to know before you fill out that ballot.

- **ICE detention warehouse update:** New NYT reporting says DHS is looking to offload the SLC warehouse it overpaid for.
- **Trump endorses Moore, Malloy, Kennedy:** Predictable picks spark a meltdown among Phil Lyman supporters who'd convinced themselves Trump would back Lyman.

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- **CD3: Malloy vs. Lyman:** Why this race is closer than it looks: 60% of the district has never seen Malloy on a ballot, Lyman's base is more energized, but his campaign is missing basic blocking-and-tackling — including a still-unfiled federal financial disclosure.
- **Stuart Adams' money machine:** A breakdown of how his own leadership PAC funneled $110K into his own primary, plus campaign-cash spending on a steakhouse dinner in NYC.
- **Legislative primary cash flood:** $1.5M+ raised across 22 contested races.
- **Open primary mechanics:** How non-Democrats can still request a ballot in the CD1 Democratic primary, and why Republicans could "mess with" that race if they organized.
- **Trump vs. vote-by-mail:** Trump's Truth Social attack on Utah's mail ballots, and Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson's pointed rebuttal.
- **The press-pass lawsuit:** New GRAMA numbers: the Legislature has spent **$428,000** so far on outside lawyers fighting Bryan's First Amendment case...and counting.
- **Mark your calendar:** Live election night coverage Tuesday, June 23 at 7:30 PM with [David Nir of *The Downballot*](https://www.the-downballot.com/?ref=utahpolitics.news).

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