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.”