SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates like to boast about their ability to lure away disaffected Republican voters. If there's a place to test their skills it's Utah.
The deep red state is a bastion of conservative resistance to President Donald Trump. While the president has conquered virtually every other corner of the GOP landscape, his powers just don't work as well in Utah.
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The state's polite conservatism clashes hard with Trump's take-no-prisoners approach.
Moderates like Pete Buttigieg have been courting disaffected Republicans, and Mike Bloomberg and Amy Klobuchar are also getting consideration from typically GOP voters.