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Poll: Trump falls into tie with Clinton among Utah voters

Republican Donald Trump appears to have, in his earlier words, “a tremendous problem in Utah” as a new poll shows him slipping into a dead heat with Democrat Hillary Clinton since crude comments he made about women surfaced last weekend.

And along with the billionaire businessman’s sudden fall, independent candidate and BYU graduate Evan McMullin surged into a statistical tie with the two major party presidential nominees, according to survey conducted Monday and Tuesday by Salt Lake City-based Y2 Analytics.

It started on a Friday afternoon. The debate was two days away and Donald Trump was supposed to travel to Wisconsin the next day for an appearance at the Elkhorn Fall Fest. The press was excited for fried fair food.

But that fateful afternoon everything changed. Audio had leaked and, in it, the Republican nominee boasted about how his celebrity status gave him license to touch women’s genitals and kiss them without permission.

How Long Can Evangelical Woman Stay Behind Donald Trump?

Over the weekend, as Donald Trump’s sexually aggressive comments on a leaked tape blew up the news cycle and threatened to sink his candidacy, a bulwark of support emerged among male evangelical leaders. Prominent evangelicals like Ralph Reed, Jerry Falwell Jr. and Robert Jeffress have all doubled down their support for the GOP nominee.

Clinton sees new opportunities to woo Republicans in Trump’s troubles

A buoyant Hillary Clinton promised Monday to give Americans “something to vote for, not just something to vote against,” but made clear that Democrats see new opportunity to press the case against Republican Donald Trump in the final four weeks of the election contest.

Riding high as Republicans sank into a historic internal crisis over Trump’s behavior, Clinton strode into the nation’s Rust Belt, pledging to push a “renaissance” of advanced manufacturing and sharply criticizing Trump’s commitment to blue-collar workers.

Donald Trump is making endorsement history — and not in a good way

Donald Trump loves breaking records. He has boasted about earning more votes in a Republican presidential primary than any candidate in history and helping set a new mark for debate viewership.

But lately Trump has been breaking endorsement records at various news outlets — and not in the good way. Publications that have backed the Republican Party nominee for decades are refusing to do so. Some that have rarely, if ever, endorsed a Democrat — or any candidate at all — have done just that.

Polls conducted since the disclosure of a tape on Friday, in which Donald Trump was recorded condoning unwanted sexual contact against women, suggest that he has probably lost further ground against Hillary Clinton. But the polls aren’t in much agreement, with some polls showing little change in the race and others implying that the tape has had catastrophic consequences for his campaign.

Trump’s risky base-first strategy

Donald Trump adopted a base-first strategy at the second presidential debate, tossing red meat to his most fervent supporters in an effort to save his campaign from imploding.

Trump might have had little choice after an extraordinary weekend that saw Republicans fleeing his campaign.