A new poll shows Republican candidate Derek Brown at the front of the pack of five candidates for Utah attorney general in a poll conducted less than three weeks out from the general election.
Current Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes did not seek reelection, which left the seat open. The latest Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll conducted by HarrisX among 813 registered voters shows Brown with 40% — a 20-percentage-point lead over Democratic challenger Rudy Bautista who is at 20%. There are just 11 days remaining before the Nov. 5 election.
Brown is the former chair of the Utah Republican Party and former state lawmaker, and Bautista is a longtime defense attorney.
The poll shows unaffiliated candidate Austin Hepworth at 5%, United Utah Party candidate Michelle Quist at 4% and Libertarian candidate W. Andrew McCullough at 3%.
Twenty-eight percent of the registered voters who responded to the poll said they were unsure which candidate they would select.