Posted on 08/23/2016 11:31:34 AM PDT by orchestra
Republican Donald Trump has a 15-point advantage over Democrat Hillary Clinton in Utah, 39 percent to 24 percent, as the two fight for the White House, according to a poll released Tuesday.
Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson gets 12 percent support among likely voters in the Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey, followed by independent candidate Evan McMullin, at 9 percent.
Pollsters found Trumps lead grows to 20 points, 53 percent to 33 percent, when he faces Clinton one-on-one.
The highly unusual presidential race between Clinton and Trump has redrawn the electoral map this year. Previously safe GOP states are in play, but theres not much of a chance that Utahs actually going to go Democratic this year, Dean Debnam, president of PPP, said Tuesday.
PPP's results found both Clinton and Trump are deeply unpopular with Utahs likely voters.
Sixty-one percent view Trump unfavorably while 31 percent see the GOP nominee favorably.
Seventy-two percent have an unfavorable view of Clinton, compared with 23 percent who look on the Democratic nominee favorably.
PPP conducted its latest sampling of 1,018 likely voters in Utah via telephone interviews Aug. 1921. It has a 3.1 percentage point margin of error.
Also Tuesday, senior Clinton policy adviser Jake Sullivan opened a campaign office in Salt Lake City.
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints make up 60 percent of Utahs population and typically vote overwhelmingly for Republican candidates.
Trump finished last, however, during Utahs GOP presidential primary in late March, with 14 percent of the vote.
Polling in neighboring Nevada, which is also home to many Mormons, has shown a closer race between Clinton and Trump.
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FWIW, Minion won Utah by 47%, Bush won in 04 by 46%.
So Trump can be doing a lot, lot better there, though if he only wins by 1 it won’t make any difference.
Only by 15??? I didn’t realize that there so many complete idiots in UT.
Yeah, looks like the bishop is making some inroads-
I'm not sure how this applies to the whole demographic, but I'll bet it isn't that far off.
“Previously safe GOP states are in play”
Notice, no mention of previously safe Dimmy states.
The others are in play though.
The third party candidates will get their usual. Maybe it will go as high as 4-6% in total, because of the general voter disaffection. But it won't be higher than that.
"I'm really mad at Hillary (or Trump), so I'm going to wait in line for an hour at my polling place to cast a meaningless vote for a third party candidate!!!" Yeah, right. These people won't even bother to show up.
Could see that happening. Northern Maine is politically very different from Southern Maine. The North contains mostly natives, the South, mostly back-to-nature liberals from Boston, MA, NY, NJ, and so on.
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