Posted on 03/20/2016 3:32:54 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Ted Cruz has a significant lead over his two Republican challengers in the days leading up to the Utah caucuses — and yes, that includes Donald Trump.
A Y2 Analytics survey released on Saturday shows Cruz with the support of 53 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers. If Cruz were to get at least 50 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s caucus, he’d capture all 40 of the state’s GOP delegates.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich came in second in the poll with 29 percent, and Trump followed him at 11 percent.
The survey also found that 64 percent of Utah Republicans believe Trump will weaken the Republican Party as its nominee. Among those who said they wouldn't support Trump in the Utah caucuses, a majority say they would be unable to vote for the GOP front-runner in November should he be the party's nominee.
Cruz has been campaigning in the state and won the endorsement of a close colleague, Utah Sen. Mike Lee. He also earned the support of 2012 nominee Mitt Romney, who told his Facebook followers on Friday that he was voting for Cruz in an effort to deny Trump a majority of delegates ahead of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Trump, meanwhile, has launched a last-minute TV ad campaign against Cruz, spending roughly $160,000 on TV ads in the state ahead of Tuesday’s contest.
Trump continued his assault on Cruz Friday night when he again accused the Texas senator of dishonesty and said “Mormons don’t like liars.” A majority of Utah residents identify as Mormon — around 62 percent, according to the latest U.S. Census figures.
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So I guess Donald is wrong after all and Mormons do like liars.
Actually they like the standard bearer for the traditional (though not biblical) church/state mix.
Not much Donald can do about the Mormon factor.
Utah must be a strange place.....beautiful but strange.
Mormon is weird.
The only thing that could help Donald here would be some huge, huge gaffe on Cruz’s part before the main voting begins. He’s not spent all that much advertising in Utah, probably seeing it as a vain pursuit.
Donald’s probably going to need to wangle it sans Utah.
Trump has a bigger lead in New York and it’s more than 15 times the population
This is what the Romney endorsement bought.
I get it why the Mormons want Cruz but whats wrong with them that they want NWO George Soros’ lapdog Kasich in second place? pure evil and completely surrendered to it,
I thought they we’re more informed than that?
Course look at Romney and what a McCain he turned out to be,
In Utah, no need for a focus group. Just interview one and it all comes into focus.
Mormon is, at best, a badly troubled piece of Christendom.
Troubled by demonic meddling, that is.
If the face story about Joseph Smith is credible, he got himself embroiled in some seriously demonic phenomena. Did he ever actually believe? Maybe, though still the legacy of what he did on earth is still with us as the LDS.
This poll was taken before Salt Lake City was turned into a battle zone with leftists and illegals throwing rocks at people, and before Glenn Beck’s lunacy about Cruz being the fulfillment of Mormon prophecy. I had commented on Beck’s nutjabbery on another thread, and a Mormon Freeper told me that Mormons would find Beck’s statements to be highly offensive.
Will those events have any impact on the voting, we’ll have to wait and see.
Basically, Smith asked the wrong question.
He asked how there could be a lot of denominations and only one Jesus Christ. He went down the same road of assumption that the official Roman Catholics and Orthodox went down. That there has to be one main church organization in the world, as against the biblical concept of the body of all believers. This is an open invitation to whitewashing.
Beck is a Mormon too, isn’t he?
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Maybe Cruz will stick his foot in it after all, and Trump will have a better showing in the end.
Yes he is, while Cruz is a Dominionist Baptist.
Something ooey-wooey is going on. I think this is the merger of the worse, rather than the better, side of the commonality between the two belief systems.
Mormonism has nothing to do with Christianity.
It is a false religion that lives within the trappings of Biblical imagery to capture the unsuspecting in the age old heresy of works salvation.
It's wicked as hell.
A lot of “isms” have seriously contrary-to-Christianity elements in them. Hello Methodism? With the hobbled grace promise? (Lose your salvation)
However the grace of God remains more powerful than the sin of Satan. If the message can be pieced together by the Holy Spirit, then the Holy Spirit can choose to do it even in a wicked milieu.
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