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Clinton Appeals To Mormons With Deseret News Op-Ed

Hillary Clinton is making an appeal to Utah's Mormon population as she tries to peel away voters who may be reluctant to support Republican nominee Donald Trump.

The Democratic presidential nominee on Wednesday wrote a guest editorial in the Deseret News, the Mormon church-owned newspaper.

Clinton writes that she's fought for religious freedom and compares Trump's call for a temporary ban of foreign Muslims entering the U.S. to past efforts to persecute Mormons in America.

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Clinton quotes Mitt Romney, Gov. Gary Herbert and Sister Rosemary M. Wixom, a leader of an organization for children within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Trump finished third in the state's GOP presidential caucus and his proposed ban, brash demeanor and past infidelities didn't go over well in the socially conservative state, where more than 60 percent of residents are Mormon.