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Evan McMullin has little money and no major-party backing, and he is little known outside Utah, his home state. But Recently Evan McMullin, 40, has been drawing big crowds in Utah and thousands of online supporters who see his moonshot run for president as a final refuge for “Never Trump” conservatives. Some polls show him turning the battle here into a three-way race with Mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton.

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The only thing polls are good for is gauging momentum. Right now, all the signs seem to she that Donald Trump is continuing to rush in the polls and that Hillary Clinton has fallen behind. Hillary Clinton’s unlikeability rating is at an all-time high. People mostly don’t trust her, and now that she’s admitted to her being even more secretive by hiding her diagnosis of “pneumonia” after her and her door-mat (suck-up) in the media spat in the faces of anyone that dared question her health, she has given people cause to wonder if she even knows what the word “deplorable” even means, this is a problem with establishment politicians that have hung around for too long and grown self-satisfied…people get the impression that Hillary Clinton just doesn’t seem interested in telling people anything. Her personal press pool of reporters isn’t doing her any favors, either. They are avoiding asking Hillary any relevant questions, they look clownishly unskillful at their jobs, and most people by now have written them off as nothing more than a gaggle of coattail riding magpies. Instead of asking Hillary any kind of questions about her health, her pile of scandals that continue to plague her, or hard-hitting issues like Black Lives Matter, they ask her how her Labor Day weekend went, they ask her what she thinks of Madame Secretary the tv show, and they roll her an orange asking if she would have dinner with Trump.

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Donald Trump’s campaign had much concern towards its tactics on a Thursday after a senior campaign official was quoted talking about a sophisticated “voter suppression” effort, a voter suppression effort is a term that usually connotes (suggests) aggressive attempts to keep people away from polling places. There was a report that came from anxiety of Republicans outside of the Trump campaign, the report came after weeks of diatribes from Donald Trump questioning the integrity of the election. During the campaign on that Thursday, Donald Trump joked that the election should be called off and he should be crowned the winner and made president of the United States. A senior official said “We have three major voter suppression operations underway.” “They are aimed at three groups Hillary Clinton needs to win overwhelmingly: idealistic white liberals, young women, and African-Americans.”

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Our nation was founded by courageous, principled Americans who took on the seemingly impossible fight for the cause of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To put our country back on track, we must live up to their example.

Meet Evan & Mindy

The American people are hungry for new ideas and new voices, and that's exactly what Evan & Mindy are bringing to this campaign.

Yes, you can vote for Evan McMullin in your state!

Whether he's "on the ballot" or a write-in candidate, Americans from coast to coast can and should vote their conscience by voting for Evan McMullin.

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Mr. McMullin has almost no shot at winning the presidency. He is on only 11 state ballots and is bumping along the bottom of national polls - when pollsters even include his name in surveys. Because of state ballot deadlines, his recently named running mate, Mindy Finn, who worked on Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign, will not even be listed on those ballots.

But Mr. McMullin might have a history-making moment in his reach. Growing discomfort with Mr. Trump among Mormon voters is offering the Provo-born graduate of Brigham Young University a tantalizing opportunity to capture Utah's six electoral votes. No candidate outside a major party has won a state since George Wallace in 1968, and Democrats are also intensifying their efforts as the race here tightens.

Though Mr. McMullin's support is growing, he still lags behind Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton. A Monmouth University poll of likely Utah voters released on Thursday showed Mr. Trump ahead, with 34 percent of support to Mrs. Clinton's 28 percent. Mr. McMullin was third, with 20 percent of voters.

Another survey, conducted this week by a Republican pollster, showed the three in a closer race and set off a blitz of news media interest in Mr. McMullin. The campaign seized on it to try to raise its profile here and in the roughly 30 other states where he is a write-in candidate.

"As Trump collapses, as Clinton continues to have troubles with scandals, those voters are coming in our direction," said Joel Searby, the campaign's chief strategist.

Mr. McMullin is happy to unload on Mr. Trump, calling him a con man and autocrat who promotes racial tensions, degrades women and disregards the Constitution and basic American ideas about fairness and compassion. He said he was "deeply disappointed" in Republicans like Senator Marco Rubio - whom he supported in the primary - for continuing to back Mr. Trump.

As he spoke in Logan on Wednesday evening, Mr. McMullin presented himself as the balm to all that - the only "true conservative" running for president.

He threaded his family's story into Utah's, saying the McMullins had joined the Mormon Church in the 1800s and were among the pioneers who crossed the Plains to settle here. A graduate of the Wharton School, which he attended after Brigham Young, he worked in war zones for the C.I.A., he said, served as a Republican congressional adviser and was with Goldman Sachs for about a year and a half.

Mr. McMullin acknowledged his campaign's long odds. Mrs. Clinton's recent rise in many polls has dimmed his quintuple-bank-shot path to victory, which hinges on Congress deciding the election if no candidate wins a majority of electoral votes.

He called for a "new conservative movement," and was applauded when he criticized Mrs. Clinton's use of a private email server and called for cutting federal regulations, supporting charter schools and restoring power to the states.

But the crowd also cheered when he called for criminal justice reform. And they gave him a thundering ovation when he criticized Mr. Trump's proposed ban on Muslims by saying, "We don't have to insult Muslims around the world and apply religious tests that are repugnant to the United States."

After attending the rally, Ms. Shapiro gave it some thought and decided that Mr. McMullin was her candidate. "I think he could do great," she said. But the campaign was having a harder time winning over some other voters.

Tanya Peters, a lawyer who lives in the Salt Lake City suburb South Jordan, is the kind of voter who could have gone for Mr. McMullin: a 42-year-old suburban Republican with roots in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who said she "clearly" was not going to vote for Mr. Trump.

In a telephone interview, Ms. Peters said she believed that Mr. McMullin was a "good guy," but she said he had never been vetted and was concerned that he has never held elected office. Others echoed her skepticism, wondering whether the presidential bid was a way for Mr. McMullin to try to vault to another elected office in Utah. Ultimately, Ms. Peters decided that despite her misgivings, she will vote for Mrs. Clinton.

Utah's Republican voters and politicians were among those wariest about Mr. Trump as he sought the Republican nomination, and were also among the first to disavow him and call for him to step aside after accusations surfaced over the last week that he had forced himself on women.

They have not, however, surged to Mr. McMullin's side. Lt. Gov. Spencer J. Cox, a longstanding Trump critic who is running for re-election this year, said he was impressed with Mr. McMullin's conservative message. He called him a "good person with a solid background" - praise that many here do not extend to Mr. Trump.

But Mr. Cox said he was still making up his mind, and suggested that Mr. McMullin's lack of elected experience was giving some voters pause.

The decision was easier for Miles Gillette, 28, who works for a car dealership in Logan. When his wife shared the "Letter to America" Mr. McMullin wrote to declare his candidacy and praise American values, Mr. Gillette stayed up till 3 a.m. reading about him, he says. He has chatted with the candidate, and believes in him.

"I'd rather take a long shot," Mr. Gillette said, "than sell my morals."

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The only thing polls are good for is gauging momentum. Right now, all signs seem to indicate that Donald Trump is continuing to surge in the polls and that Hillary Clinton has squandered her lead and fallen behind. Naturally, this is sending mainstream media into a tizzy as they run damage control to try and put a stopper on the bleeding. Of course they are never going to be honest and give you the real reasons why Hillary appears to be tanking, and that's why we are bleachaholics.

Hillary Clinton's unlikeability rating is at an all-time high. People genuinely don't trust her, and now that she's admitted to her being even more secretive by hiding her "pneumonia" diagnosis after her and her sycophants in the media spat in the faces of anyone that dared question her health, she has given people cause to wonder if she even knows what the word "deplorable" even means. This is a problem with establishment politicians that have hung around for too long and grown complacent...people get the impression that Hillary just doesn't seem interested in telling people anything.

Her personal press pool of reporters isn't doing her any favors, either. By avoiding asking Hillary any relevant questions, they look clownishly inept at their jobs, and most people by now have written them off as nothing more than a gaggle of coattail riding magpies. Instead of asking Hillary any kind of questions about her health, her pile of scandals that continue to plague her, or hard-hitting issues like Black Lives Matter, they ask her how her Labor Day weekend went, they ask her what she thinks of Madame Secretary the tv show, and they roll her an orange asking if she would have dinner with Trump. It is beyond comical, and gives people the impression that the whole thing is a pitiful farce. In trying to create this image that Hillary is hip and funny, they continuously pass up the opportunity to show voters that she is even competent. Americans no longer find this sort of coverage to be anything but deplorable.

Her rallies are abysmal. While Trump's rallies are energizing and uplifting in massive arenas, Clinton seems content to do small venues with a lifeless crowd. The media seems incapable of admitting the truth about the disparity between the two styles and only interested in framing the rallies to be as small as possible for Trump and as large as possible for Clinton. This tactic failed months ago, and now a popular meme amongst Trump supporters seems to be to always point out just how large Trump's rallies are and how empty Clinton's rallies are. This also fuels resentment amongst Trump supporters against mainstream media for failing to accurately depict the wide gulf of enthusiasm.

I have no idea what Robbie Mook said to the Clintons to convince them that he had the goods to run this campaign, but I can assure you he is in dire straits now. As a campaign manager, Mook has made some amazingly foolish moves and none of them have paid off. Most notably, I think that aside from the small, pitiful rallies, Mook's other big mistake has been to rely too heavily on fundraisers and galas. Voters are growing suspicious of a candidate that appears to spend too much time fundraising since it gives the impression that Clinton is too much of an elitist. In fact, this move backfired brutally with the "basket of deplorables" remark, which Clinton will be forced to hear about all the way until her concession speech. Although the remark was stupid because it alienated Americans, the context of where and when she delivered that remark is even more damaging. Voters see Clinton having high-dollar fundraisers and looking down her nose at the common people, and it's the kind of gaff that cements her as an elitist. Robbie Mook will be selling used cars when this is all over.

Hillary speeches are garbage. It's not just the fact that they are being held in small venues with few people present, but Hillary refuses to offer any kind of insight into what kind of President she would be. Voters are extremely jaded of the usual "help the middle class" nonsense, especially after 8 years of President Obama's policies contradicting the flashy "Hope And Change" motto that got him elected. If Hillary actually wants to win this thing, she would have to actually start talking about what her plans are to improve the economy, improve race relations, and bring stability in global relations. SPECIFICS. Instead, voters basically hear her spewing the same, tired drivel that has been regurgitated over and over again in political discourse. It's the kind of language that offers zero accountability, and now it doesn't even appeal to voters anymore. It is boring. Unless Hillary starts getting specific and making real promises, voters are going to continue to leave her in droves.

Hillary is also spending far too much time mud-slinging. If she hasn't realized it yet, this is a losing strategy. It makes her look mean and incapable of articulating any real political platform. Furthermore, it is a waste of time. Nothing she has slung at Trump has stuck, and it never will. He is gaff proof. Clinton would be wise to use her remaining time trying to win voters rather than trying to vilify Trump. It doesn't matter how many times Hillary tries to convince people that Trump and his followers are an army of hateful bigots, it just doesn't work and people are sick to death of hearing about it.

Finally, Hillary is paying a price in the polls for her 9-11 collapse, and it is a device entirely of the Clinton's own making. By failing to be forthcoming about her health and then proving to voters she couldn't be trusted, Hillary Clinton's campaign has dug themselves a massive hole. The public is going to be even more scrutinous of Clinton's health, and any perceived sense of a slip is going to bury her. One more collapse or brutal coughing fit will effectively end her campaign. She has to be the absolute picture of health from now until election day, and the media (which has already taken a brutal flogging for whitewashing these valid concerns) can't cover for her anymore. She's got 2 strikes, and one more "medical episode" will KO her.

In summation, I don't believe Hillary Clinton is currently running a winning campaign. I've demonstrated what I believe to be the biggest problems with her current strategy, but I believe there are probably a couple more, such as lousy surrogates and too many glitzy celebrity endorsements, that are also working against her. If Hillary doesn't start demonstrating that she is a capable and competent stateswoman in these last few weeks of the campaign circuit, she's going to hand this election to Trump in a handbasket of deplorables.

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Donald Trump's bumbles have created an opening for Clinton to win a unique state VIDEO

Thanks to Donald Trump's recent spiral into insanity, as well as little-known third-party candidate Evan McMullin, Utah - a firmly Republican state once thought to be a lock for the Republican nominee - may be closer than once thought. It might not even be a safe state for the GOP.

Although it's still possible that Trump will squeak through with a win in Utah, it is also quite plausible that Hillary Clinton could win because of McMullin splitting the traditionally Republican vote, which would make it the first time a Democratic candidate won the state since 1964. As Benjamin Morris explained at FiveThirtyEight, McMullin is polling incredibly well in Utah, garnering 22 percent of the vote - a 10-point jump from where he was a month ago. Hillary Clinton and Trump, meanwhile, are tied with 26 percent; Gary Johnson is earning 14 percent in the polls.

Nationally, McMullin is virtually unknown and appears on ballots in only 11 states. After the release of Trump's infamous conversation with Billy Bush, however, McMullin's stock among Mormons as a conservative alternative to the Republican nominee has taken off. Trump has already lost two of the state's biggest newspapers, with the Deseret News calling on Trump to quit the race despite having not endorsed a presidential candidate in 80 years. The Salt Lake Tribune, which endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, urged Utah Republicans to vote for Clinton, and "send a strong message to the Republican Party to turn their backs on Trumpism and to work with Clinton where they can, rather than devote themselves to blocking her every move."

All of these developments are especially notable because, prior to Trump's nomination, Utah had been drifting farther and farther to the right. Although it gave its largest share of votes to Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984, its third-largest share went to Mitt Romney in 2012. While that may have been partially attributable to Romney's Mormonism, trend lines indicate that Utah had been in the process of becoming more Republican compared to the rest of the country since the 1980s. This means that the rejection of Trump is not due to any major shift in Utahns' political ideology, but rather to a personal distaste for Trump himself.

And what about Evan McMullin? McMullin is a former CIA operations officer who later became chief policy director for the House Republican Conference. He is also Mormon himself, having been born in Utah and served as a Mormon missionary in Brazil. McMullin particularly emphasizes foreign policy in his campaign, as demonstrated by a recent interview with CNN in which he offered in-depth analysis about Middle Eastern geopolitics, and has repeatedly visited the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia during his work with both the United Nations and the CIA. His running mate, Mindy Finn, is best known for running the nonprofit Empower Women and has cited her Jewish background as part of the reason why Trump's candidacy makes her feel "afraid."

For what it's worth, an upset Utah victory for Clinton isn't the only possible outcome here. Morris has also suggested that there could even be an unlikely path for McMullen to go to the White House. "1. Win Utah, 2. Deadlock the Electoral College, 3. Win in the House," Morris explained, adding that, because Mormon Utahns have very strong negative feelings against Trump but tend to be staunchly conservative, McMullin could serve as a way out for voters in the state who can't stomach either Clinton or Trump.

Watch Evan McMullin talk to Salon:

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Thanks to Donald Trump's recent spiral into insanity, as well as little-known third-party candidate Evan McMullin, Utah - a firmly Republican state once thought to be a lock for the Republican nominee - may be closer than once thought. It might not even be a safe state for the GOP.

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Hillary Clinton's team is evidently pretty pleased that Donald Trump is leading polls of the Republican presidential primary.

On Wednesday evening, Clinton's campaign manager, Robby Mook, described Trump's rise as a "scary prospect" for Republicans that is "damaging" the GOP's chances of winning the general election.

Mook made these comments in a conversation with reporters at a press filing room the Clinton campaign set up at its headquarters during the Republican debates. He began discussing Trump when he was asked who he thought was winning. Mook said Trump was "driving the show" and pointed to remarks Clinton made late last month.

"I do think it's disturbing that Jeb Bush allowed himself to be shushed by Donald Trump," Mook said. "It's clear that, as Hillary Clinton herself said, this is no longer the party of Lincoln. This is the party of Trump, and he is driving the show here. He has a completely out-of-date and out-of-touch philosophy, and I think that's a scary prospect for them in the general election."

With Mook predicting that Trump could hurt the GOP's chances of victory, Business Insider asked him to elaborate on how he thought the Republican front-runner could help Clinton.

"I think the bigger issue here is how damaging he has become to the Republican Party," Mook said of Trump. "He has completely driven them to the right. I think you saw more insult, more bluster, more sexism tonight. I think he's a real problem for them in the general election."

After the debate, Clinton's communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, told Business Insider she had "yet to see" Trump make any argument that could be "damaging" to Clinton. Palmieri also said she thought Trump could "illuminate for the American people ... where the Republicans stand on important issues."

"Immigration in particular comes to mind," Palmieri said.

In an interview on "The Tonight Show" that aired Wednesday evening, Clinton herself said she was enjoying Trump's success in the GOP primary.

"I'm having a good time watching it," she said.

Trump's campaign declined to comment on the Clinton team's remarks.

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Hillary Clinton's team is evidently pretty pleased that Donald Trump is leading polls of the Republican presidential primary. On Wednesday evening, Clinton's campaign manager, Robby Mook, described Trump's rise as a "scary prospect" for Republicans that is "damaging" the GOP's chances of winning the general election.

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A secret service agent slammed a Time magazine photographer to the ground at today's Donald Trump rally at Redford University in Virginia.

Veteran White House photographer Chris Morris told CNN's Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta that the altercation occurred when he stepped outside the press area.

"I stepped 18 inches out of the pen and he grabbed me by the neck and started choking me then he slammed me to the ground," Morris told reporters outside the venue. Time has since responded to the situation and expressed concerns to the Secret Service.

"We are relieved that Chris is feeling OK, and we expect him to be back at work soon," a Time spokesperson said.

Secret Service agent choke slams reporter pic.twitter.com/jdsHOlylSB

- Joe Perticone (@JoePerticone) February 29, 2016

Here's moments prior. The reporter says "f*ck you" - that's when it got physical pic.twitter.com/h9K2wIbEWQ

- Joe Perticone (@JoePerticone) February 29, 2016

The Secret Service issued the following statement: The Secret Service is aware of an incident involving an employee of the Secret Service that occurred earlier today in Redford, VA. At this time, our local field office is working with their law enforcement partners to determine the exact circumstances that led up to this incident. The Secret Service will provide further details as warranted once additional facts surrounding the situation are known.

The Trump campaign also put out a statement: There was an incident involving a photographer and a USSS agent at today's Redford University Trump rally. We are not aware of all the details surrounding the incident and all future inquiries should be directed to local law enforcement.

9 More Donald Trump Fudges and Lies From Primary Season (Videos)

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