Mormons were once reliably Republican – but they could tip Arizona Harris’s way
Harris and Trump are going all out to woo the 450,000 Mormons, or 6% of the population, who live in Arizona
A valuable Republican voting bloc in Arizona is seeing a shift from members towards Kamala Harris in numbers that Democrats believe could make the difference for them in an election where the latest polls have Donald Trump slightly ahead in the swing state.
With nearly 450,000 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as LDS or Mormons, living in Arizona, they make up about 6% of the state’s population and both the Harris and Trump campaigns have been going all out to woo them.
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