Evan McMullin Is A Democrat And A Fraud

Anyone who thinks Utah Senate candidate Evan McMullin is running as a true independent must be unfamiliar with where “McMuffin’s” campaign comes from.

For one, McMullin is running with the full endorsement of the Utah Democratic Party, which voted in April to back the former House staffer in his bid to unseat Republican Sen. Mike Lee. McMullin has leveraged the Democrat Party’s fundraising machine ever since, soliciting donors through ActBlue while contracting Democratic strategists to the tune of $1.6 million. So for an independent candidate, support behind the effort is remarkably partisan.

A closer look at the origins of McMullin’s campaign reveals the Senate hopeful as nothing more than the latest vehicle for the Lincoln Project to thwart the Republican agenda. The group of self-righteous political operatives who supposedly set out on a crusade to save the Republican Party from Donald Trump quickly morphed into an explicit enterprise to capitalize on Trump Derangement Syndrome while masquerading as white knight Republicans. Few if any of the group’s scandal-ridden co-founders, however, have worked on a legitimate Republican campaign in more than a decade, and at least one, Steve Schmidt, openly registered as a Democrat in December 2020.

The foundation for McMullin’s Senate run with a pro-abortion platform lies in the candidate’s first race as a failed presidential hopeful six years ago. McMullin’s entire political career has been one of GOP obstruction and sabotage, forcing the Republican Party to divert scarce resources from key contests to the futile challenges for an upset in Utah.

In 2016, McMullin was recruited by Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson and Bulwark co-founder Bill Kristol to lead a third-party bid for the White House. Tax filings show Kristol has effectively been a Democrat for years while both worked to undermine Republican incumbents in Georgia’s Senate contests last year. McMullin ultimately pulled less than 1 percent of the popular vote but garnered 21 percent in Utah and finished the race with $645,000 of unpaid debt. The national campaign for a 40-year-old former Hill staffer nobody had ever heard of was never going to take off, but the effort forced the Trump campaign to send former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to Salt Lake City in the final days of the race when the vice presidential nominee could have spent time somewhere else.

“Evan McMullin Isn’t Just Running For President — He’s Literally Building A New Party,” ran a BuzzFeed headline on the day of Pence’s Utah visit. Wilson was named in the story as a senior adviser to McMullin, who ultimately became the Lincoln Project’s pet candidate in this year’s election cycle to hand Chuck Schumer another two years as majority leader after the group meddled in Georgia. A Democrat win in Utah could serve as the dark-horse pick-up Schumer needs to offset losses elsewhere and maintain his grip on the upper chamber.

Even after founders fled the Lincoln Project when it became mired in child sex scandals, Wilson remains a creature of the Beltway group that’s become