Trump campaign scrambles to lock down Utah

When Mike Pence took the stage for a campaign rally last week in this most improbable of 2016 battleground states, he came with a request for the assembled Trump supporters: Pray.

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“I know many of you in this room do what… I do from time to time — you bow the head, you bend the knee,” Pence solemnly intoned to the crowd at the Infinity Event Center. “It’d be a good time to do it in the next 12 and a half days.”

Indeed, Donald Trump could use some divine intervention in Utah. With less than a week to go until Election Day, his campaign has found itself scrambling to eke out a win in America’s reddest state — lining up last-minute Mormon surrogates, privately pressuring GOP officials not to defect, and openly going to war with an insurgent third-party candidate.

Don Peay, Trump’s Utah chairman, acknowledged in an interview with BuzzFeed News that the race is unprecedentedly close. “The state is more politically divided than it’s ever been,” he said.

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