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Political Cornflakes: Massachusetts Democrat dupes Fox News, slams Trump

Happy Tuesday. And happy Pioneer Day. A Massachusetts congressional candidate pulled a bait-and-switch on a Fox News talk show yesterday, using the president’s preferred morning show as a platform to blast his administration’s policy of immigrant family separations. Fox & Friends had thought it booked a former Arizona congresswoman for the show but instead a Massachusetts Democrat running for Congress appeared on screen. [Politico]

Topping the news: While most Utahns have never heard of Justin Harding, Gov. Gary Herbert’s chief of staff, the governor calls him the “supercop directing traffic” in state politics. [Trib]

-> There was an increase this year in the number of Utahns who voted in the primary election, from 24 percent in 2016 to 29 percent this year, according to a final canvass of results from Lt.