Challenger Claudia Wright expects to take Rep. Jim Matheson to a primary

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SALT LAKE CITY — Claudia Wright thinks she'll see her name on a 2nd Congressional District primary ballot in June and may even win enough delegate votes in the state Democratic convention this week to eliminate five-term U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah.

"I think my chances" of getting 40 percent of the delegate vote in the convention — and thus making it to the June 22 primary — "are excellent," Wright said in an interview.

"There's an outside chance I could get 60 percent" and win the 2nd District Democratic nomination outright at Saturday's convention, she said. (She needs 360 delegate votes to get 40 percent, 540 votes to get 60 percent.)

Matheson won't rule out a primary fight. But he says flatly that Wright won't get 60 percent of the Democratic delegate vote — he won't be eliminated in the convention.

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