Utah GOP Governor Spencer Cox Supports Radical Woke Ideology

By most accounts, Utah is a deep-red state. Its Cook Partisan Voting Index currently sits at R+20, making it the second-most-Republican state in the country. It’s tied with Oklahoma, and outflanked only by Wyoming’s R+25 rating. But Spencer Cox, the state’s first-term Republican governor, has consistently toed a socially liberal line on many cultural issues that is wildly out of step with Utah’s deeply conservative voter base. As I wrote in March:

The discrepancy between Cox and his state on social issues came to a head most recently when the governor vetoed a ban on males in girls’ sports. In the lead-up to his veto, he wrote on Facebook,

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By most accounts, Utah is a deep-red state. Its Cook Partisan Voting Index currently sits at R+20, making it the second-most-Republican state in the country. It’s tied with Oklahoma, and outflanked only by Wyoming’s R+25 rating. But Spencer Cox, the state’s first-term Republican governor, has consistently toed a socially liberal line on many cultural issues that is wildly out of step with Utah’s deeply conservative voter base. As I wrote in March:

The discrepancy between Cox and his state on social issues came to a head most recently when the governor vetoed a ban on males in girls’ sports. In the lead-up to his veto, he wrote on Facebook,