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    What Utah Voters Really Want From Mitt Romney

    New polling data show a large majority of Utahns want the senator-elect to stand up to President Trump. But experts and activists in the state say that he’ll need to walk a fine line.
    by McKay Coppins Dec 01, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: Gene Sweeney Jr. / AP

    The question has followed him ever since he first launched his bid for the United States Senate: Is Mitt Romney coming to Washington as a friend or foe of Donald Trump?

    Thanks to new polling data from the Associated Press, at least one thing is clear: Romney’s constituents back in Utah don’t want another presidential lapdog.

    According to the poll, 64 percent of Utah voters want to see Romney stand up to the president when he gets to the Senate. That’s an eye-popping number for a conservative state, particularly in a year when Trump is elsewhere in his party and touting high approval ratings among Republican voters. (Notably, the AP

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