More than two-thirds of Utahns believe Donald Trump doesn’t have the temperament to be president, yet he may win the state this election year, a new UtahPolicy poll shows.
And three-fourths of Utah women say Trump doesn’t have the proper presidential personality.
The new Dan Jones & Associates survey shows Trump has real problems with Utah women, after an audiotape has Trump saying as a famous, rich man he can grab women by their genitals and get away with it.
Hillary Clinton is currently running third in Utah, behind Trump and independent candidate Evan McMullin, yet even more Utahns think she DOES have the temperament to be president.
Go figure.
This is one crazy presidential election – even in rock-solid Republican Utah.
The latest survey by Jones finds that Trump has 30 percent core support in the Beehive State – and it seems nothing can really move that number.
In the head-to-head match-ups previously published, Jones finds that Trump has 30 percent of the vote.
And in the new poll questions asking if Trump and Clinton have the temperament to be president, again 30 percent say Trump “definitely” or “probably” does have the right presidential temperament.
Views on Clinton, however, are different:
— While only 25 percent of Utahns plan on voting for the Democratic Party nominee, 43 percent of Utahns say she does have the right temperament to be president.
So even non-Clinton voters see that she does have some good qualities.
You don’t find that with Trump – you either vote for him and think he has the personality traits to be a good president.
Or you don’t.
And there is a significant gap between men and women concerning Trump’s temperament.
Some of the numbers from the new Jones’ poll:
— 68 percent of Utahns say Trump does not have the temperament to be president.
— 30 percent say he does.
— 45 percent say Clinton has the proper presidential temperament.
— 54 percent say she does not.
— 36 percent of men say Trump fits the presidential bill, only 25 percent of women say he has the proper temperament.
— 73 percent of Utah women say Trump lacks presidential temperament, but just 62 percent of men agree.
So it appears Utah men are more forgiving of Trump’s sexist remarks than are women.
The views of Utah voters are highly partisan:
— 54 percent of Republicans say Trump does not have the proper temperament.
— But 73 percent of Republicans say Clinton doesn’t have the temperament to be president.
— 97 percent of Democrats say Clinton has the proper presidential personality.
— And 2 percent say Trump does.
Political independents fall out on Clinton’s side, rather than Trump’s.
— 47 percent of independents say Clinton has presidential temperament.
— 75 percent of independents say Trump does not.
The only demographic group that says Trump does have presidential temperament are those who self-identified as “very conservative” politically.
Fifty-two percent say Trump is OK in that regard.
But “very active” Mormons are against him in about the same numbers that are against Clinton.
— 66 percent of “very active” Mormons say Trump does not have the temperament to be president.
— And 65 percent of Mormons say the same thing about Clinton – kind of a “pox on both your houses” type of attitude of the two major party candidates.
Jones polled 818 likely voters from Oct. 12-20. The statewide survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.43 percent.
