Trump-Backed Candidate Loses In Wyoming

Wyoming Treasurer Mark Gordon (R) won the Republican Party’s nomination for governor “after one of the most contentious primary races in recent memory,” the Casper Star Tribune reports.

“Emerging from a field packed with outsiders, Gordon captured about 33 percent of the vote on his way to a victory that, at times throughout the race, was in doubt.
A weeks-long advertising blitz and numerous high-profile endorsements, including an 11th hour endorsement from President Donald Trump, helped to push Jackson millionaire Foster Friess from the back of the pack to the front, a surprising surge given his relative obscurity in Wyoming state politics several months ago.”