Three weeks after announcing its “Mormons For Hillary” group, the Clinton campaign released a new web video Tuesday targeting Mormon voters as Mormon Republicans disaffected with their party’s nominee publicly renounced Donald Trump.
“We are Mormons for Hillary” shows various members of the LDS Church reading a passage from Clinton’s “It Takes A Village,” which focused on the familial and societal structures that affect child development, before an appeal to vote early.
Donald Trump’s problems in Utah have only been exacerbated by a video published Friday that showed the Republican nominee bragging about being able to kiss and grope women without their consent due to his celebrity status.
On Friday, Utah’s Gov. Gary Herbert (R) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), the House Oversight Committee chair, renounced their support of Trump. So did Utah’s rising Republican political star, Rep. Mia Love (R-UT). Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), who has spoken out loudly against Trump for months, released a video Friday pressuring him to drop out of the presidential race. Former Utah Gov. John Huntsman also called on Trump to quit.
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo, who, like everyone mentioned thus far, is Mormon, also unendorsed Trump, on Saturday.
Meanwhile, two third-party candidates, independent Evan McMullin, a Mormon former CIA agent, and Gary Johnson, the Libertarian former governor of nearby New Mexico, are campaigning heavily in the state. TPM’s Polltracker Average for the state shows Trump leading Clinton 35.7 percent to 24.7 percent.
Watch the web video below:
Surely must be a coincidence…
Not bad. Could run that with any ______ for Hillary.
Very nice. Leave no voter un-reached.
I grew up in Salt Lake. Mormons are very protective of women, as there is still an attitude that women should be at home and protected, so Trump’s statements will not go over well with them. Clinton doesn’t either, because she’s the antithesis of what a woman should be. There are enough non-Mormons and Mormons who don’t follow the above stereotypes that will give Clinton enough votes to do well…the question is if the alternate candidates draw enough off of Trump for her, or one of them, to win the state. This is going to be a very interesting race to watch, which tells you how unusual this year is.
Exactly.
What I really wish we could do is show this to All Americans for HIllary!