She avoided Donald Trump, who was unpopular with many Utah voters, throughout his presidential campaign in the run-up to the 2016 election,
And for a short while she was seen as a rising star in the GOP. Love, who was running for reelection in 2016, boycotted the Republican National Convention.
And issued a statement announcing unequivocally that she would not support Trump after a 2005 tape of Trump making obscene remarks about groping women was made public.
Instead, she supported Ted Cruz, a senator from Texas, in the GOP campaign, but he left months later. Love attempted to distance herself from Trump on immigration and trade.
While supporting her party’s tax-cutting stances in her 2018 run for a third term. However, she lost by less than 700 votes to Democrat Ben McAdams,
The former mayor of Salt Lake City, even though Republicans in her district outnumbered Democrats by almost three to one. In a press conference the morning following Love’s defeat,
