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We can now also report that our partners at cbs news project President Biden will win the democratic primary in the state of arkansas. And to round that out in arkansas, cbs news also projects that former President Trump will win the republican primary in the state of arkansas. The polls have just closed in three states minnesota, texas and colorado. Joining me live our emma vardy whos in denver, colorado. Any indication of how who might when theyre in colorado . I dont then they will be any hug...

Utah, specifically salt lake city is not majority mormon, its a minority mormon population. there is a lot of islanders. expanding as we speak. construction everywhere. there is a culture of tollerance that is born out of the work of the lds church, the missionaries that they send all around the world. mike lee is mormon royalty by birth and upset a lot of people in the church by comparing trump to the angel moronai and beclowned himself in the state. its a state that has always looked with cont...

Two-time gop presidential candidate thought his campaign days were behind him. then utah senator orrin hatch decided to retire and urged romney to run for his seat. >> i did not expect to do this after i lost to barack obama, did you know i lost? yeah. >> reporter: wife ann pushed him to do it. >> she said, well you can get more done for utah and our country than the average junior senator from utah. >> reporter: romney first ran for senate a quarter century ago in massachusetts, challenging ted...

Stepping in to lead the 2002 salt lake olympic committee in the wake of a bribery scandal. his gop opponent calls michigan born romney a carpet bagger but his ancestors were early leaders in what is now utahs large mormon population. >> im a five generation utahen but my dad took time off for our business career. >> reporter: running for president, romney was known to make awkward statements that landed with a thud, not in utah. >> those were built about two and a half years ago but im told they...

Running against him and a lot of party activists who really dont want to see an establishment candidate put up as sort of the clear frontrunner for the utah republican party. >> democracy in action. >> thats the fight, john. >> well watch that one play out over the weekend for governor romney, want to be senator romney. in addition, those internal tensions, utah also factors into the democrats math as they look to take back the house. mia love, a national republican star nationally. is she reall...

Is throwing a wrench into trumps foot hold there. whatsor take on utah potentially being in play? >> well, i think it is in play, because evan mcmullon, who is a mormon, and attended big ham young university has close ties to the state. the mormon population, custom is a major part of that states politics, has been very cold to donald trump. mitt romney, the most prominent political leader from that community has been very hard on donald trump. and evan mcmullen is a good safety valve for republ...

Something like hes impressive for a capitol hill aide, which is what he was. policy director for the house gop. >> this is the heart decrease mormon voters are reliably republican, reliably conservative have complete rejected donald trump in a way that no constituency has with the same sort of fervor. mcmullin is trying to build some sort of new anti-trump movement. >> from the beginning hes been saying he wants to build a new conservative movement. hes centered his campaign in salt lake city in...

A real clear politics average of polls show mcmullin as a real threat, trailing trump by just five points. chris jansing joins me now from the only open polling site in all of salt lake city. chris, what is going on in utah that is now making it a potential swing state? >> reporter: thats the question everybody is asking. in a nutshell, you have a large mormon population, about two-thirds. theyre feeling very uncomfortable with the things donald trump has had to say. in fact, much of the republi...

Its the largest mormon population in the country. a state where donald trump struggled so much in the primaries. that might have been his worst stake. there is a lot of talk about this. donald trump struggled so intensely with mormon voters. that seems to be a big part of your strength in utah. mormon voter who is normally vote republican who wont vote for trump and are ready to vote for you. what is behind that? >> i want to make very clear that i think thats simplistic. i am a member of the ch...

On the other hand, a state like arizona, which has not voted democratic for a presidential candidate since 1996, thats a possibility im told by democrats there. you see the reality of it there by the presence of big time surrogates like michele obama, bernie sanders going there. and the reason that arizona is in play is because normally the frustration democrats have there is they have a tough time getting as many latino vote towers the polls as they want. but donald trump is a one man get out t...