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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Donald Trump is making a pitch to Utah voters reluctant to back him with a guest editorial in the same Mormon church-owned newspaper that Hillary Clinton used last week to appeal to residents.
The Republican presidential nominee's guest editorial Monday in the Deseret News said his top priority is earning the trust of voters. The piece comes after Trump acknowledged last week he was "having a tremendous problem in Utah."
He didn't mention the Mormon faith by name but accused Clinton of trying to "undermine our religious liberties on the altar of political correctness."
In her piece, Clinton compared Trump's call for a temporary ban of foreign Muslims entering the U.S. to past efforts to persecute Mormons in America.
Trump didn't mention that plan, but lamented how radical Islamic terrorists are spreading warped ideology through murders.
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Link to Trump's editorial: http://bit.ly/2b7fEXM
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Information from: Deseret News, http://www.deseretnews.com
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