Utah won't be competitive this cycle, but there are many reasons Republicans are losing ground there.
The state is very young, educated, and suburbanized. It's also very white and very religious, which works to the GOP's favor, but Mormons can be tough to pin down ideologically.
The state is very young, educated, and suburbanized. It's also very white and very religious, which works to the GOP's favor, but Mormons can be tough to pin down ideologically.
The sense I get is, white Mormons tend to be very socially conservative, but also more skeptical than white Protestants of the idea Trump is an "instrument of God" and more bothered by his moral failings.
So you see lots of them hating both sides, feeling politically homeless.
So you see lots of them hating both sides, feeling politically homeless.
I think once Trump is out and once the GOP nominates someone less obviously a walking cautionary Bible story, you'll see Utah drift right, but not all the way back to where they were.
