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The 2016 United States Senate election in Utah will take place on November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Utah, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Senator Mike Lee is running for re-election to a second term in office. ==Republican primary== Lee, a Tea Party Republican, may face a primary challenge from a member of the more establishment wing of the Party following his role in the unpopular 2013 federal government shutdown, which caused his approval ratings to drop precipitously.〔 Changes to Utah's primary system could adversely affect Lee's chances at renomination. Presently, Utah political parties hold conventions, where delegates attend and vote for candidates. Only if a candidate fails to gain at least 60% of the vote do the top two finishers proceed to a statewide primary election.〔 In 2010, incumbent Senator Bob Bennett finished third at the convention behind Lee and businessman Tim Bridgewater and was eliminated, with Lee defeating Bridgewater in the subsequent primary election. Lee's approval rating is much higher among the smaller group of more conservative convention delegates and a recent change in the law, backed by the group Count My Vote, allows candidates to bypass the convention by collecting signatures to advance to the primary.〔 Thus, a less conservative challenger could challenge Lee in the primary, appealing to more moderate Republican and unaffiliated voters, who could participate in the primary.〔 The constitutionality of the changes have been challenged in court by the Utah Republican Party.〔 One possible challenger to Lee is former Governor of Utah and former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt, one of the founders of Count My Vote, though he has denied interest in running.〔 Businessman and philanthropist Jon Huntsman, Sr., who has called Lee "an extremist" and "an embarrassment to the state of Utah" because of his "extremely radical" positions, may help bankroll an establishment, business-minded challenger, such as Zions Bank President A. Scott Anderson, Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce President Lane Beattie, University of Utah political scientist Kirk Jowers, Mitt Romney's son Josh Romney or former State Party Chairman Thomas Wright.〔 An effort to draft Huntsman, Sr.'s son, Jon Huntsman, Jr., the former Governor of Utah, former United States Ambassador to China and a candidate for President in 2012, was unsuccessful, with Huntsman ruling out a run against Lee. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United States Senate election in Utah, 2016」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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