Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said on Tuesday that Democratic candidates, including former Congressman Ben McAdams, are running to the left in a new, deep blue congressional district established by court order.

McAdams ran as a moderate to represent Utah’s Republican-leaning 4th Congressional District from 2019 to 2021. He is now competing against multiple progressive candidates in Salt Lake County’s new 1st Congressional District, which leans Democratic by more than 15 percentage points .

During his monthly PBS press conference, Cox criticized the Nov. 10 judicial ruling that established new congressional boundaries not approved by the Legislature, saying it violated the original intentions of the 2018 Better Boundaries initiative by exacerbating partisan pressures in U.S. House races.

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