Mormon sensibilities in Nevada bristle at the thought of backing Trump

Mormons in Nevada want a reason to like Donald Trump.

Or at least the Republican ones — who make up the overwhelming majority of the Mormon community here — do.

Some are already all-in for Trump. But for others, a year of campaign-trail attacks on women, religions, and ethnic groups from what they see as a prideful, harsh-tongued, thrice-married businessman from New York has left many members of the Mormon community here in Nevada searching — earnestly, and somewhat desperately — for a reason to support him before November.

In Nevada, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints comprise a small but reliable voting bloc that has exercised outsize influence in Republican caucuses, turns out to the polls at higher rates than other demographic groups, and often mobilizes grassroots-style on behalf of conservative causes.

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