Sanders attracts support from 26.5% of Utahns who say they'll vote in the March 3 Democratic primary, according to a Salt Lake Tribune survey conducted by Suffolk University. Fellow progressive Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts senator, is No. 2 with 14.4%.Trailing them in the top tier of candidates are two moderates: former Vice President Joe Biden with 12.1% and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg with 9.9%. The poll of 132 likely Democratic primary voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 8.5 percentage points.
David Magleby, emeritus political science professor at Brigham Young University, says Sanders leads here because of big support from young Democrats and from the local party's left-wing leaning plus his head start from 2016, when he won the Utah Democratic caucuses with an overwhelming 77% of the vote over Hillary Clinton.
n 2016, Sanders surprised himself and pundits by drawing 14,000 mostly young people to a rally at This Is the Place Heritage Park and returned four days later for a second sellout event at West High School to accommodate hundreds who were turned away from the first."It looks like I got some bad information," Sanders said, looking over the first vast crowd. "Somebody told me Utah was a Republican state." He has yet to visit the state this year.
(Article changed on February 4, 2020 at 04:01)
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