{"id":15403,"date":"2016-04-06T19:06:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T02:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15403"},"modified":"2016-04-06T19:06:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T02:06:26","slug":"utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/04\/06\/utah\/","title":{"rendered":"utah."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m… skeptical<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/em>
\n“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.<\/em>
\nThe 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

The immediate problem, I suppose, is a “gaffe” <\/a>(Can you call it that?)<\/p>\n

Trump made news<\/a> in heavily Mormon Utah on Friday by wondering aloud at a Salt Lake City rally whether former presidential candidate Mitt Romney was actually Mormon, though Trump would later suggest he was just implying that Romney wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t very smart, because \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Mormons are very smart people. I know many Mormons.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Prediction: Republicans win Utah.\u00c2\u00a0 We are in a bit of “this<\/a>” territory with party loyalties, after all.\u00c2\u00a0 And Utah’s not voting for a Socialist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m… skeptical. 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15406,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15403\/revisions\/15406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}