In Bed With The Mormons and Feeling Dirty But Elated

[Jenny A]

“Today, there is a contest between Trumpism and Republicanism,” Romney wrote. “Through the calculated statements of its leader, Trumpism has become associated with racism, misogyny, bigotry, xenophobia, vulgarity and, most recently, threats and violence. I am repulsed by each and every one of these. The only path that remains to nominate a Republican rather than Mr. Trump is to have an open convention.”

Romney argued that Utah Republicans had no alternative but to rally around Cruz’s candidacy—although he added that, if he lived in Ohio, he would have voted for Kasich there, last week. The goal is not to secure the nomination for Cruz. Mathematically, it’s nearly impossible for Cruz to accumulate a majority of delegates by June 7th, the last day of the G.O.P. primary season. But it is still possible to deny Trump the one thousand two hundred and thirty-seven delegates he would need to win, potentially throwing the convention in Cleveland open. And “at this stage,” Romney said, the best way to achieve that “is for Senator Cruz to be successful in as many of the remaining nominating elections as possible.”

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I'm waiting for a highly entertaining GOP convention.

The anti-Trump feeling runs so high that a recent poll showed that in a general election against Trump, Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders could actually take the state.

Cruz won the Utah caucuses with sixty-nine per cent of the vote, taking all forty delegates. A  of voter sentiment collected at caucuses by the Salt Lake Tribune captured the intensity of Utahans’ disdain for Trump. “I don’t like [Trump’s] temper or demeanor. For me, personally, it scares me to see the riots that are already happening,” one voter told the paper. Another said, “He’s cheater. He’s womanizer and he’s proud of it.” A third said Trump’s “rhetoric is scary to me, just the anti-Muslim, anti-Mexican, just the angry rhetoric, I don’t like it.” The paper reported that Stuart Adams, a Republican leader in the Utah State Senate and Trump’s highest-profile endorser in the state, apparently had a change of heart and declined to either make a case for Trump at his local caucus or reveal whom he voted for.

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