Bill Clinton to campaign in Utah. No, seriously: Utah.

There’s expanding the map, and then there’s this: Bill Clinton is going to Utah to campaign for Hillary Clinton. 

Utah is one of nine states to have voted Republican in the past 12 presidential elections, but GOP nominee Donald Trump is unpopular in the state, scrambling the race.  

Polling averages give Trump a shockingly small 5-point lead in Utah, ordinarily one of the reddest states in the nation. A lead of this size is more like Clinton’s edge in traditional battleground states like Virginia and New Hampshire. As this week’s national polls remind us, Democrats still need to fight for every inch, every millimeter, of ground—and to repudiate Trump's dangerous positions as fully as possible But if we’re fighting for Utah … I’d really rather be standing where Democrats are than where Republicans are. (Electorally. Morally, I’d always rather be standing where Democrats are.)