How to sum up everything that is going wrong for Donald Trump? In a word: Utah.
The ruby red, conservative enclave hasn't voted Democrat for president since 1964, quadrennially rewarding Republican nominees with among their largest margins of victory of any state.
By every political measuring stick, this is a Republican state. The GOP controls the state house and executive offices, and dominates the congressional delegation.
Culturally, fiscally and otherwise, there is not an inkling of liberalism in Utah's DNA. And yet, even against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, a candidate reviled on the right, Trump has run into turbulence.
In a late July-early August poll conducted by Dan Jones, a Republican pollster in Utah, Trump led Clinton 37 percent to 25 percent, with Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson at 16 percent.
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04.18.2024