Poor Donald Trump. Even Utah, which has voted for Republican presidential candidates with metronomic regularity since 1964 and which I’m visiting for a few days, looks like it’s about to turn its back on the New York tycoon. There are no ‘Make America Great’ or Trump signs in Salt Lake City, the citadel of the Mormon religion. Nor is there any fervour for Trump to be discerned in neighbouring towns like Provo. On the contrary, former Republican candidate Mitt Romney made plain his revulsion for the libertine Trump months ago. It had a real effect. Many Mormons are looking elsewhere than Trump.
The winner of Utah’s electoral votes may thus turn out to be neither Trump nor Hillary Clinton but Evan McMullin. His credentials? A devout Mormon who grew up in Provo, he served as a covert operative in the CIA and circulated in Washington conservative circles, working on Capitol Hill as a foreign policy aide and chief policy director of the House Republican Conference.
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