The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday backed Clinton , marking the third straight election its endorsed a Democrat for president.

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"It has been amusing, to a degree, to watch the circus that was the Republican primary process struggle and fuss and finally produce such a disappointment to be its presidential nominee," wrote the 145-year-old newspaper’s editorial board of Trump.

Despite Clinton’s a "reputation for secrecy and dishonesty," the Tribune declared that Trump has "built a campaign on insults and bigoted statements, finally losing any right to be taken seriously with the recent release of a video in which he was heard to brag about his ability to get away with sexually assaulting women."

In 2012, Romney beat Obama by nearly 50 points in Utah.

Prominent Utah Republicans have fled Trump in the wake of Friday’s release of leaked tapes from 2005 showing Trump speaking vulgarly about groping women and attempting to have sex with married women.

"The fact is that the next president of the United States will be one of two people, one eminently qualified and painfully forged, the other a total disgrace. Serious voters will focus on that," the Tribune concludes.

"And the best choice, without a doubt, is Hillary Clinton."