The Republican party could not get the name of a replacement nominee onto the ballot in any of those. His website also states that “Americans can and should work together.to reduce unintended pregnancies and encourage adoption, even if they may have different opinions on abortion rights”.
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APPHOTO UTRB103: In this August 27, 2016, photo, independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin, participates in a staff meeting near Salt Lake City.
“While the race is close, it is unclear whether Clinton or McMullin has the better opportunity to upset Trump”, said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute.
“We’re standing up for those things, and we are building a new conservative movement in this country that will extend beyond November 8”, he said. “I favor a limited government”.
The poll, which was conducted on October 10th and 11th, in the aftermath of the “Trump tape” and the debate drubbing, showed Trump was viewed unfavorably by 72 percent of Utah voters.
“I’m a conservative. I’m the only conservative in this race”, McMullin said to a Salt Lake City TV station.
“I may just plug my nose and vote for Trump, but frankly, that’s going to be a really tough thing to do”, said Taylor, 63, the owner of a rental auto company. That [Trump] tape really crystallized that sentiment for a lot of people. “There are core issues that are bigger than Donald Trump”, Perry said.
Like most long-shots, Mr. McMullin says he wants to win outright, but acknowledges a more likely scenario could be trying to keep either Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Trump from winning a majority of 270 electoral college votes, which would throw the election to the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives. Since leaked audio emerged last week of Trump making sexually abhorrent comments about women, droves of top Republican Utah lawmakers – including the state’s sitting governor – have either abandoned their support for the candidate, or have asked Trump to forfeit his nomination completely.
Independent candidate Evan McMullin is polling strong in Utah while Bernie Sanders supporters are running a write-in campaign in Vermont. “I’ve developed, I think, a special opposition in my heart to tyranny”.
Democrats have always been confident about their ability to win Colorado, where both Trump and Clinton visited recently.
Hillary Clinton could potentially be the last choice of almost three-quarters of Utah’s voters, and yet she could win the state’s electoral votes.
A Mormon himself, McMullin is a graduate of Brigham Young University and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. As a CIA operative after September 11, 2001, he spearheaded counterterrorism and intelligence operations overseas for a decade. Ironically, it’s also non-Mormons who might end up guaranteeing Trump’s victory: He leads McMullin by 25 points among that group whereas his lead among Mormons has shriveled to six points.
“Utahns have a special place in this election”, said in a statement before Logan’s event. We’ll also hear from Lisa Riley Roche, politics reporter with Deseret News, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the state, to get a sense of where things stand with Utah voters.
Like Libertarian Gary Johnson, McMullin is running his national campaign out of a Salt Lake City Headquarters.
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“I seriously doubt the Republican party is viable as a political vehicle going forward”. Regardless, McMullin promised he would continue calling for a new generation of conservative leadership.
