Quote of the Week

“We can get into the fact that he accused my best friend’s father of conspiring to kill JFK. We can go through the fact that he’s made statements that some have identified correctly as religiously intolerant. We can get into the fact that he’s wildly unpopular in my state, in part because my state consists of people who are members of a religious minority church. A people who were ordered exterminated by the governor of Missouri in 1838. And, statements like that make them nervous.”

-- Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), explaining to NewsMax exactly why he has not yet endorsed Donald Trump.

A couple weeks ago, Survey USA conducted a poll in Utah and discovered that Trump and Hillary are tied there at 35 percent, with Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson at 13 percent.  To give you some perspective on this, John McCain won Utah by 28 points in 2008 (62% to 34%) and Mitt Romney won there by 48 points in 2012 (73% to 25%).