New Utah Poll Trump in Last Place

It's the first poll to come out of Utah in over a month and what does it show??? It shows Trump with a meager 11% of the vote while Cruz is on top at 53%! Looks like Romney's support has really helped out Cruz in Utah. However, Cruz does tend to do better in Caucuses. Do you think Ted Cruz will win Utah and how much do you think the messy Arizona Trump rallies will affect his standing in the polls

New poll shows Ted Cruz with a big lead in Utah | The Salt Lake Tribune

Yeah right, like we didn't see that coming. lol

ModerateGOP said:

It's the first poll to come out of Utah in over a month and what does it show??? It shows Trump with a meager 11% of the vote while Cruz is on top at 53%! Looks like Romney's support has really helped out Cruz in Utah. However, Cruz does tend to do better in Caucuses. Do you think Ted Cruz will win Utah and how much do you think the messy Arizona Trump rallies will affect his standing in the polls

New poll shows Ted Cruz with a big lead in Utah | The Salt Lake Tribune

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Trump will destroy the competition in Arizona and be destroyed in Utah. The religious west/midwest isn't good for Trump but those states don't have a lot of delegates anyway.

ModerateGOP said:

It's the first poll to come out of Utah in over a month and what does it show??? It shows Trump with a meager 11% of the vote while Cruz is on top at 53%! Looks like Romney's support has really helped out Cruz in Utah. However, Cruz does tend to do better in Caucuses. Do you think Ted Cruz will win Utah and how much do you think the messy Arizona Trump rallies will affect his standing in the polls

New poll shows Ted Cruz with a big lead in Utah | The Salt Lake Tribune

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It's no secret that Mormons tend to be overwhelmingly Republican, and that there are quite a lot of them in Utah.

So, what does the church have to say about the Trump campaign?

This is from LDS.net:

When Donald Trump began running for president in the summer of 2015, most pundits dismissed his candidacy because of his public profile as a reality TV entertainer.

His campaign generated attention through a series of controversial statements that alienated many voters but won him a devoted following. Still, few considered him a viable candidate.

But now that voting has begun, Trump has started to win actual delegates for the nomination. His statements that did not make front page news now deserve special consideration.

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I think most of us can agree with the above (generally, that is. Some won't agree that 2 + 2 =4, but that's another issue).

Trump’s campaign has made two statements in relation to Latter-day Saints.
1) Mormons have an “alien” faith (snip)

2) “Investigate Mormon Churches and Shut them Down”

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Most candidates simply refrain from speaking about the Church at all. And those that do, tend to issue only polite statements like Ben Carson’s, “I am not the least bit offended by the beliefs of Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Mormons and so forth.”

In other words, the uncorrected hostility between Donald Trump and Mormons is unprecedented in modern presidential politics. You may have to go back to Grover Cleveland in 1889 to find similar anti-Mormon sentiment from a presidential campaign.

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Trump's statements, and those of his minions, aren't gaining him a large following in Utah.

It's kind of like saying that the voters of another state are "stupid" for not supporting him better.

So, add Mormons to the groups that he has alienated, and ask yourself if he has a snowball's chance of winning the general election in November.

Wait, what? Investigate Mormon churches and shut them down? I think it is referring to this: Did Trump spokeswoman misspeak? She says feds shut down 'Mormon churches' | The Salt Lake Tribune, which is seriously stupid and wrong, but not the same thing.