How The March 22 Primary Elections Went Down

As I noted earlier, the first unofficial returns from Utah suggest that Cruz is going to win by a lot. Perhaps more interestingly, the early returns also suggest that Trump will run in a very distant third place. Nate, I’m usually not one to try and predict general election results from primary outcomes, but Trump seems to have a big problem with Mormon voters, and they make up the majority of voters in Utah. It’s not just that they prefer Cruz and Kasich to him; it’s that they really don’t like Trump or what he stands for. While I think Trump would still carry the very Republican state of Utah in the general election, I’m not sure I can simply dismiss out-of-hand polls showing him trailing Clinton.

We haven’t seen any official results from Utah yet, but reports from caucus sites suggest Trump will do quite poorly there. Do you think Democrats could win Utah in November, as a poll this week suggested?

Cruz just took his first lead in an Arizona county: it’s tiny Graham County, which also happens to have the highest Mormon percentage in the state. Unfortunately for Cruz, it’s too little, too late in that state.