Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Utah Republicans never warmed up to Trump like they did to Reagan, Dubya, and McCain

 
3rd party votes:  27.3% in 1992, 9.9% in 1996, 21.5% in 2016
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace 
received 6.4% of the vote in 1968)
SourceWikipedia

New York Times, 2/18/2025

Kellen Browning writes:
Traditionally deep red, Utah moved just one percentage point to the right in the 2024 election, the second-smallest statewide shift in the country after Washington. One big reason is that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who make up a vast — and once reliably conservative — segment of the Utah population, have been drifting away from the G.O.P.

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