Utah Republicans drop support for protest vote

KUTV - Salt Lake City ^ | 11/1/2016 | Heidi Hatch

[ObozoMustGo2012]

(KUTV) “Utah's six electoral college votes matter and Republicans are finally ready to unite.” Congressman Rob Bishop worked today to unite his party.

After weeks of on again, off again support for Trump -- many of Utah’s elected officials say their nominee is not as bad as they thought

“Donald Trump is no choir boy,” said Utah Senior Senator Orrin Hatch, but he knows Hillary Clinton and believes she cannot be President.

“We are not voting for the pope,” reminded another at a rally at Utah’s State Capitol. “We are voting for a President.”

Utah republicans who were bashing Trump and looking for another candidate last month are now saying the only way to preserve a conservative future for America is to vote for Trump.

Tuesday's Trump rally did not dance around Utah’s three-way split of the presidential vote as rallies in the past have tried.

“Jesus is not on the ballot! And Evan McMullin -- you are not Utah’s Savior,” the line came with chant’s for Trump.

Congressman Chris Stewart confessed to the crowd, that he voted for Trump. It is a fact that may come as a shock to many, since he demanded Trump step aside three weeks ago and let Pence lead the ticket. “The ballot mailed to me sat on my desk for a few days,” said Stewart. “l looked at it every morning and every night, but it is time for Republicans to come home.” Stewart believes the Supreme Court is one of the important issues that Utah voters should think about while voting.

Bishop admitted that he too thought about voting third party and watching the race go to the house for a vote as well, “I have those flights of fancy myself and then the alarm clock rings -- and I have to wake up.” “I even flirted a little when that tape came out just like Chris Stewart did,” said former Utah Congresswoman Enid Green Mickelson. She like many others thought, “about registering a protest vote,” but when the race tightened Mickelson said she no longer felt like protesting was an option. “It is no longer possible for someone to say I’m going to register a protest vote because my vote isn't going to matter.”

It matters she says and the thought, “I won't be responsible for either being in the White House,” is not the way to go.

Utah legislator Jake Anderegg was one of the few Utahn’s to publicly endorse Evan McMullin on the steps of the State Capitol in October, “I sat here 3 weeks ago with Evan McMullin, I stood up here on these steps” he said "And yet I’m here today, supporting Trump. In fact I voted for Trump.” Anderegg said he liked the idea of McMullin denying Clinton and Trump the chance at reaching 270 electoral votes. He changed his mind he said, When McMullin started bashing Republicans.

Bottom line, today’s rally of Republicans boomeranging their vote, comes down to “what's at stake.”

Senator Hatch said there are at least four US Supreme Court seats that could be up for grabs in the coming years. The last few years have not been good he says and “we have got to turn this mess around.” Utah's senior senator has backed Trump all along -- he has nothing against McMullin -- he just doesn't want you to vote for him.

“A vote for him is a vote for Hillary Clinton.”

[JamesP81]

Better than nothing but I’m tired of hearing what a bad guy Donald Trump is. I think that in most respects he behaves as a gentleman.

Consider that he has lived many decades in the public eye and has had a great deal of wealth during that time. Temptations are paraded in front of him daily.

In all that time, the very worst thing anyone has been able to come up with and substantiate is the Billy Bush tape. That's it. Frankly, given the environment he exists in, that is a remarkably clean record.

[catnipman]

“Poor poor Glenn Beck he can’t get a win anywhere”

yep. even the mormons are disavowing him now ...

[pfony1]

Hmmmm...?

What could that “big surprise” be?

Will Gloria Alred file a multi-billion dollar class-action lawsuit against Trump on behalf of ALL the women of the World?

Will the NYT publish Trump’s tax returns, which some say were “leaked” by the corrupt IRS to Clinton’s campaign staff many month ago, and then present that campaign’s biased “analysis” of a few cherry-picked “items” that they believe they can “spin” to make Trump look bad?

Will America’s Communist Party withdraw its endorsement of Hillary and “endorse” Trump instead — thereby “proving” that Trump does have a “Russian” connection?

But let’s not let whatever that last-minute “big surprise” IS actually fool anyone.

It is simply the final “dirty trick” of the very dirty Clinton-Media cabal.

[Albion Wilde]

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Selected Trump articles on FR, from 12:00am to 2:00pm EDT, 11/02/16:
Mesa County Deplorables to rally for Trump on Saturday [Colorado] –KJCT
Anthony Weiner has checked into a SEX ADDICTION treatment center after his sexting triggered FBI investigation –DM
Cloth or Something (Bleachbit trolls Clinton) –BleachBit
Paul Ryan: 'Republicans need to come home' –CNN
‘Clinton is in serious trouble': Internet pirate Kim Dotcom warns –DM
BREAKING: NYPD Blows Whistle on New Hillary Emails: Money Laundering, Sex Crimes w Children, Child Exploitation, Pay-to-Play, Perjury –TruePundit
FBI deputy whose wife took ‘Clinton cash’ asked by Congress why still involved in email probe –DM
Fox News Blows Lid Off of Hillary’s Illegal Voting Scheme –ETF
Opinion: Hillary Clinton is irreparably damaged, even if she wins –MktWatch
Asst. AG Peter Kadzik LEAKED Info to Podesta on Hillary Email Probe –GP
Emails Exposed How Deep Clinton’s Claws Go at ‘Justice’ Dept. –WstnJrnl
FBI Found ‘Pay for Pardons’ In Clinton Foundation Investigation (vanity)
Cheryl Mills Orders Techs to Delete Emails by Bleachbit [Hillary’s lawyer] –GP
Call Hillary Clinton’s Bluff –WSJ
‘Vote for the Crook, It’s Important?’ –LegalInsur
HOLY CRAP FBI Releases FOIA Docs On Vince Foster –FBI
FBI Records: Vince Foster's Suicide –CSE
REVEALED: Liberal Money’s Longterm Strategy To Control Public Opinion And Secure ‘Advantageous’ Demographics –TheDC
Clinton Campaign Was Warned that Turkey’s Erdogan Was Attempting to Buy Favor –FrBea
The Clinton Cartel [Dems illegal supply to Iran] –Reddit
Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how America is run –Thomas Frank
Hillary Caught on Tape Proposing Rigging [2006 Palestinian] Election: FULL AUDIO –YouTube
Speaker Ryan renews call to suspend classified briefings for Clinton –Reuters
Who Leaked The CNN Debate Question To Donna Brazile? –TheDC
The Hillary Clinton Takeover of the United States [transcribed] (with video)
Why Comey Reopened the Hillary Investigation –Ed Klein
Two Types of Campaign: Manufacturing Consent v. Majority Goal –Ammoland
4 things that stink about the Clinton email investigation –Dan Bongino
Woo hoo!! Please keep those donations coming in, folks. Let's git 'er done!! –Jim Robinson
(Freep a Poll) Utah Republicans drop support for protest vote –KUTVSaltLake
Hillary Clinton’s niece is voting for Donald Trump –NYPost
New Poll: Trump +13 Pts with Catholics [+22 with Protestants] –Faithzette
George Prescott Bush Endorses Trump –CNN
Lord Ashcroft: Donald Trump Is Like Brexit In 3 Key Ways –Time
Donald Trump’s campaign rejects support of ‘repulsive’ KKK newspaper –WaTi
Obama to Court Afr-Americans for Clinton [campaigning thru week] –USNews
Proj.Veritas—Top Dem Donors Compare Black Republicans to Nazi Sympathizers –Sundance
Louis Farrakhan Compares Hillary to Black Community’s Hitler (video)
Black Church Leaders Have Message for Hillary on Religious Liberty –Federalist
Most college students think America invented slavery, professor finds –CollegeFix
Democrats Are the Party of Slavery, Segregation, and the KKK –TheDC
Feel Safe? 3 Times Hillary Apparently Took Bribes from Terror Funders –JihadWatch
Hillary’s Shameless, Deadly Roles in Benghazi and Fast & Furious –Diane Kepus
Sean Hannity sees his biggest ratings in years amid a wave of Trumpism –BizInsdr
Trump now within 5 Electoral Votes of 270 in RCP No-Tossup map –RCP
Trump supporters TWO HOURS before rally in Eau Claire, WI video –Twitter
Democrats need 5 seats for Senate control, and they may get them –BstnGlobe
Team Clinton Knocks Survey Showing Trump Ahead, Calls It 'Bad Polling' –Townhall
Wikileaks Exposes Extent of Clinton Corruption [even lefties admit it] (video)
Pew Report: Significant Economic Impact of "Anchor Babies" –NewAmer
Federal Judge Notes Refugee Bias –Bill Donohue
ObamaCare IT jobs being offshored to India –ComputerWld
DONALD TRUMP/MIKE PENCE PRAYER VIGIL 11/2/16 –
Bill Clinton's 'Secret Love Child' Appeals to Monica Lewinsky for DNA Testing –DM
LIVE: 3 Trump Rallies in Florida 11/02/16-Miami 12pm, Orlando 4pm & Pensicola 7pm ET –
Megyn Kelly the Weak Link as CNN Beats Fox News In Key Demos –Matt.Boyle
Hillary: Impose Gun Control by Judicial Fiat –AmThkr
Clinton’s Website Rejects Donations Made in Honor of Lewinsky, Weiner –Milo
Columbia University made me vote for Donald Trump –TheTab
Hillary Slams ‘Dark, Divisive, Dangerous’ Trump Supporters –Jeff Poor
Pew: Trump Voters Are Tolerant, Hillary Voters are Intolerant –Breitbart
CNN Anchor’s Stunned When Fact Checker Confirms Hillary’s Corruption (video)
Mexico's peso reels from Trump's upswing in polls –AP
It’s Alive–U.S. Trade Rep: Congress Has the Votes to Pass TPP –Julia Hahn
USC/LA Times Poll: 11/02 [Trump 47.8; Clinton 42.4] –
The Oath Says: ‘Preserve, Protect and Defend’ –WSJ
The True Story: Trump did not mock a reporter's disability –CatholicsForTrump
LGBT group endorses Trump, calls Clinton 'detrimental' for gay community –WaEx
Trump supporter gets revenge on lawn-sign vandal –Twitchy

[Psalm 144]

About time. TYVM for the ping.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Mormon support for open borders and amnesty is part of this.”

ALL of this !!

[xzins]

McMullin is an odd duck. His only chance is based on the fact that Donald Trump is in the race. If Donald Trump weren’t there, McMullin would not exist in the minds of anyone.

[Kudsman]

Very glad to hear this development!

[Psalm 144]

“Looks like Mormons don’t want to be pariahs after all.”

Half of them, anyway. Look at the poll at the bottom of the page. Maybe trimmers just to put themselves in a win/win position. Not unprecedented.

[JediJones]

The idea that staying “neutral” makes you not responsible for the outcome of the fight went out the window with Switzerland.

[Duchess47]

‘Bout time.

[Zathras]

We will remember that Ted Cruz, Glen Beck and Romney caused this mess.
Colorado should have been a win until Cruz/Beck messed it up.

[treetopsandroofs]

“Mormon support for open borders and amnesty is part of this.”

Plus, with muzzies and sharia, they can start (legally) collecting women again.

[alancarp]

“We are not voting for the pope...”

Bizarre thing to say in the midst of Mormon country.

[Gator113]

I wish you wouldn’t have posted that pic...I really like those.

[manc]

Romney;s sidekick can go to hell. None of us should ever forget what the establishment has done to the voters choice.

[thefixisin]

What a bunch of fairweather hypocritical self-righteous douchebags

[Clintonfatigued]

More good news. The Mormons, the college-educated white-collar women, and even many Republican DC insiders are coming home to save our country. Every day it looks more hopeful.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Willard first. Just like in ‘08 and ‘12, he’s here to elect the Democrat candidate.