Sanders set to crush 2020 Democratic rivals in primary in deeply conservative state

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Bernie Sanders is poised to score a big win in one of the nation’s deepest red states.

Sanders, 78, has a double-digit advantage in socially conservative Utah, according to a new poll by the Salt Lake Tribune and Suffolk University. The Vermont senator, a socialist, has 26.5% of the vote among Democrats likely to vote in the state’s primary on March 3 surveyed, trailed by his Massachusetts counterpart and ideological ally Elizabeth Warren’s 14.4%.

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