SALT LAKE CITY – Following a chaotic caucus night, the Utah Republican Party has finally released preliminary results of the state’s presidential preference poll.
Former president Donald Trump carried the state, but not in the blow-out that was expected.
As of Mar. 6, the Utah GOP said that Trump won the state by 17 percentage points over former Gov. Nikki Haley.
Haley has hoped to score a victory in the Beehive State, keeping her presidential hopes alive after winning the Vermont primary earlier in the evening.
But Utah’s voters gave Trump a far less impressive margin of victory than the other 12 states that he captured on Super Tuesday.
Trump won about 58 percent of GOP votes, that is 42,589 ballots, compared to Haley’s 41 percent, or 31,383 votes.
Here in Cache County, the former president’s margin of victory was even slimmer.
Of 3,477 GOP ballots cast, Trump captured 53.5 percent compared to 45.4 percent for Haley.
Despite that showing, NBC News is reporting this morning that Haley has bowed out of the race for the Republican nomination for president, ceding the GOP nod to Trump.
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