Update 11:01 a.m.: After a flurry of questions and criticism surrounding the report, KUTV has unpublished its original story. A SurveyUSA poll from June conducted for The Salt Lake Tribune between Trump, Clinton, and Johnson shows Trump and Clinton tied at 35 percent and Johnson at 13 percent. Our original post appears below.
The last time Utah voted for a Democratic president, it wasn't much of a statement: It was 1964, and 44 of the 50 states tilted for the Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson over the Republican Barry Goldwater in one of the biggest presidential landslides in American history.
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