When Donald Trump visited Utah during the 2016 primary season, he spoke at a rally saying, “The evangelicals have been so amazing, everybody is so amazing, and do I love the Mormons, OK? Do I love the Mormons!”
Now, more than two years later, it has become jarringly apparent that Trump's professed love of Latter-day Saints is, in fact, reciprocal among a large portion of the Mormon population.
In January, a Gallup poll reported that 61 percent of Mormons approve of the president. And although Republican presidents typically enjoy closer to 80 percent approval ratings among Latter-day Saints, it still speaks volumes that Mormons approve of Trump more than any other religious group, including evangelicals as a whole.
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