Posted on 03/20/2016 12:24:46 PM PDT by reaganaut1
SALT LAKE CITY — If Donald Trump becomes the Republican Party's nominee, Utahns would vote for a Democrat for president in November for the first time in more than 50 years, according to a new Deseret News/KSL poll.
"I believe Donald Trump could lose Utah. If you lose Utah as a Republican, there is no hope," said former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, a top campaign adviser to the GOP's 2012 nominee, Mitt Romney.
he poll found that may well be true. Utah voters said they would reject Trump, the GOP frontrunner, whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is the Democratic candidate on the general election ballot.
While Clinton was only slightly ahead of Trump — 38 percent to 36 percent — Sanders, a self-declared Democratic socialist, holds a substantial lead — 48 percent to 37 percent over the billionaire businessman and reality TV star among likely Utah voters.
"Wow. Wow. That's surprising," said Chris Karpowitz, co-director of Brigham Young University's Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy. "Any matchup in which Democrats are competitive in the state of Utah is shocking."
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Utah is unAmerican trash if true.
And more push polls to help the GOPe Cruz in Utah.
Conveniently timed poll touted by a Romney minion to win Utah Tuesday.
Doesn’t speak well for the State of Utah.
Oh goodie. It proves Cruz could be president of utah, and beat Hillary. Mormons into snake handling now?
What a damn joke this is.
By contrast, the poll finds that Cruz would beat Clinton by 60% to 32%.
Stupid is as stupid does.
They’ll vote for Hillary if she’s not in prison... for selling her country out. What charming values..../s
. If you lose Utah as a Republican, there is no hope,” said former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, a top campaign adviser to the GOP’s 2012 nominee, Mitt Romney...
How well did his ‘’top advice’’ work out for Mitt, who couldn’t win anything?
Romney will make sure Hillary wins. That’s it in a nutshell. Obviously he is doing his best to turn his mormon buddies away from Trump.......extremely transparent manipulation to keep the upper eschelon in place and to continue to impose parasitism on the tax-payers.
I think you can say Hillary will be grateful to Utah.
Utah hates America if this is true.
Ditto for Ohio.
That’s those ‘core values’ at work.
In March of 1980. Jimmy Carter was 20 points ahead of Ronald Reagan and all the media was saying that Reagan had no chance as a conservative to beat the Democrat let alone get the nomination...36 years have passed and they have not needed to change thier mantra because the sheeples are too ****** ignorant to get it...well if you remain ignorant you become the victim of unintended consequences so good luck America!
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Utah is a back water nothing. Means totally nothing . It will be the last delegate that cruz accumulates before the lava flow from the volcano, Mount Trump.
So Mitt Romney/Cruz supporters would rather have hilLIARy as President I guess.
Everyone knows Utah is weird.
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