McMullin, who joined the race in August, has not pulled support away from Trump as he was hoping. Instead, it appears that McMullin’s 9% has come primarily from Utah voters who previously had named someone else as their preferred candidate.
McMullin is basing his campaign on denying both Trump and Clinton the 270 electoral votes they need to win the White House, which would throw the election to the House of Representatives, where he hopes he would prevail. But, to do that, McMullin needs to win electoral votes, and that means winning states. He’s nowhere near that goal in Utah.
The race in Utah is solidifying as Trump is slowly building a sizeable lead over Clinton. In June the real estate mogul had a 9-point lead. In August that lead had expanded to 12-points, and now it sits at 15. Utah Democrats had been making some noise that Clinton could challenge Trump in the Beehive state. Clinton has opened a field office in Utah and surrogates like Congresswoman Barbara Lee has campaigned for her here. Those efforts don’t seem to be making much of an impact among Utah voters.
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