Wyoming primary opens 3 top offices after retirements shake ballot
What's new: Republicans are contesting open races for governor, Senate and House at the same time for the first time in 32 years.
Wyoming voters headed into a primary shaped by an unusual chain of retirements that opened the races for governor, the U.S. Senate and the state’s lone U.S. House seat all at once. Gov. Mark Gordon and Sen. Cynthia Lummis are leaving office, while Rep. Harriet Hageman is running for Lummis’ Senate seat. That reshuffled contests across the ballot, including open races for secretary of state and superintendent of public instruction. In the GOP race for governor, Megan Degenfelder and Eric Barlow entered as the best-funded candidates. Hageman led Senate fundraising by a wide margin. The crowded Republican House field included Jillian Balow, Bo Biteman, Steve Friess, Reid Rasner and Chuck Gray.