4 Reasons Mormons Are More Skeptical Of Trump Than Other Religious Conservatives

October 25, 2016 12:38 PM ET
DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN

"There isn't a simple answer when it comes to Mormons and Trump," Stephanie Fowers said. "We are so torn right now that hardly anyone I know will even mention his name anymore because it's too depressing."

That makes her just another disenchanted voter in the endless slog that is Campaign 2016. Fowers, a writer from Cottonwood Heights, Utah — and a Mormon — said that among the Mormons she knows, she sees a lot of indecision.

"Some of us might pull the lever for Trump, because we don't like Hillary," both when it comes to her policies and her potential Supreme Court picks, Fowers told NPR. Because she lives in Utah, she has another option: Evan McMullin, an independent candidate, former House staffer and CIA operative, who is on the ballot in 11 states.

"Some of us might go McMullin, because we want to preserve the conservative movement (as we believe it to be), and we feel that Trump will damage it further if he becomes president," Fowers said. But, she added, "neither answer is fully satisfying. At all."

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