Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is expected to easily win reelection in the deeply red state. But his surprising choice to back Donald Trump this year has voters wondering what they should expect over the next four years from a leader they long thought to be a moderate Republican.

Results of the Utah governor's race in which GOP incumbent Spencer Cox faced Democrat Brian King and write-in challenger Phil Lyman in his bid for reelection — and in a contest most notable for Lyman's election denial and bogus claims of fraud and corruption.

Gov. Spencer Cox secured a second term Tuesday, defeating his Democratic state Rep. Brian King in Utah's gubernatorial race, according to the AP. The big picture: Utah's gubernatorial race was rife with unsubstantiated claims of election fraud,