Utah poll doesn't existReports are he was only 3 points behind in an Utah pol's internal poll recently. The latest I saw was down about 11 with 19% undecided. Utah is in play.
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Johnson will get some of those votes, certainly. But he stepped in it a bit in an interview last week. "Under the guise of religious freedom, anybody can do anything," he told the Washington Examiner. "Back to Mormonism. Why shouldn't somebody be able to shoot somebody else because their freedom of religion says that God has spoken to them and that they can shoot somebody dead?" This led to a "the candidate regrets his remarks" follow-up, but as noted by an expert the Salt Lake Tribune interviewed, this is not the sort of first impression that is likely to earn him many votes.