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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hm.
anyone believe this? for real?
Yep. Trump is right that he’ll redraw the map. You’ll see red states turning blue in historic numbers. Mondale turned all the blue states red. Trump is the Republicans’ Mondale, turning the whole map blue.
The Mormon establishment is currently consolidating behind Mitt Romney. That is all.
The very idea that Clinton or Sanders will win Utah is laughable.
And Trump beats Clinton in MI, PA, FL. So what? I’ll trade those for Utah any day.
Nope, they're just smarter than you. Smart enough to know Trump is liberal trash.
By contrast, the poll finds that Cruz would beat Clinton by 60% to 32%. “
GOOD!
Then those fools can vote for Hillary!
But if the Gope and Cruz’s loony supporters think they are going to blackmail the MAJORITY because their televangelist dreamboat can’t hack it on his own, then that’s THEIR problem.
I frigging dare them to do it.
Is Trump a Hillary Mole? I’m starting to wonder.
Just kidding. Had you going for a bit didn’t I?
But then again ...
I guess Utah is full of traitors, nu?
Utah doesn’t matter as it is proportional. AZ is another prize with the win.
Don't know about all of Utah but in the case of Romney and associates...yes, better Hillary the traitor/liar than Trump.
Mormons.
That would mean in the general election, Cruz would win a total of 1 state. Congrats, GOPe Teddy!
By this Summer, Trump will have the nomination locked up and will cut a deal to make the GOPe happy. Utah will go for Trump in November.
Utah has gone Democrat once since 1948. I don’t see that happening in November regardless of who the GOP nominates.
Mitt Romney :
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
Let’s start testing new-age nuclear weapons in Utah.
Right! That’s why Bush was put on the ticket to “save” the election.
I question the loyalty of any American who won’t support Trump. I know that isn’t politically correct, but it’s true. Trump can save America by doing what needs to be done. The fact that the Republican Party has not united behind him is a disgrace.
Shame on Cruz and Kasich. Whatever their motives are, the net effect of them staying in the race is that anti-Americans become stronger.
Whatever. 6 electoral votes. Trump can deliver FL which dogcrate Romney lost.
” If you lose Utah as a Republican, there is no hope.”
Unless you win Michigan and New York.
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