Utah GOP chair urges party unity, defends caucus path and outlines outreach after SB 54 constraints

Rob Upton, chair of the Utah Republican Party, told the Washington County Republican Women during their meeting in St. George that the party will keep pushing the caucus-convention process while working within state law and pursuing legislative fixes on voter-record transparency.

The remarks, delivered during a wide-ranging speech and Q&A, stressed several operational priorities: restoring broader caucus participation, changing state rules that allow a portion of voter records to be withheld from party access, supporting convention winners through the primary when possible, and deploying resources to neighboring battleground states. "We were able to raise and deploy over a $100,000 in resources to Arizona and Nevada engaging with Republican voters," Upton said.

Upton framed the party's options as constrained by current state law, citing Senate Bill 54. He told members that SB 54 compels parties to accept primary results "regardless of the path to which the candidate qualified for that…