{"id":1454335,"date":"2022-04-26T13:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T17:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1454335"},"modified":"2022-04-26T13:44:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T17:44:51","slug":"evan-mcmullin-is-the-democrats-utah-senate-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/evan-mcmullin-is-the-democrats-utah-senate-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan McMullin Is The Democrats\u2019 Utah Senate Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fevan-mcmullin-is-the-democrats-utah-senate-candidate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1454335&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Evan-McMullin.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Utah Democrats endorsed failed independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin\u2019s Senate bid last weekend, solidifying the NeverTrump crusader\u2019s place as the liberal pick to unseat incumbent Sen. Mike Lee in lieu of a GOP primary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m humbled and grateful to the Democratic delegates today for their decision to support this growing cross-partisan coalition,\u201d McMullin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kake.com\/story\/46354466\/utah-democrats-throw-support-behind-independent-evan-mcmullin-to-take-on-mike-lee\">said<\/a> in a statement Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Taking up the same anti-Trump mantle of Rep. Liz Cheney, who faces a tough re-election bid in Wyoming, McMullin declared Lee \u201ca threat to the republic\u201d whose \u201cextreme partisanship and involvement in a plot to overturn our election are inexcusable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rather than wade into a Republican primary, McMullin launched an independent Senate bid in October while Lee faces an <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/07\/23\/nevertrump-republicans-run-to-primary-mike-lee-in-utah-senate-race\/\">inner-party challenge<\/a> from two acolytes of the state\u2019s junior Sen. Mitt Romney. The senator elected in 2018 after his own failed presidential campaign as the 2012 Republican nominee has refused to endorse in the race, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/burgessev\/status\/1501326343191019525?s=20&#038;t=AaBv-hfrC3Rz21C95OFPSA\">telling<\/a> Politico he considers both McMullin and Lee \u201ctwo friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t get involved in primaries and I don\u2019t endorse,\u201d said Romney, who, days later would attend a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/26\/mitt-romney-to-fundraise-for-liz-cheney-at-vaccine-mandated-event\/\">Cheney fundraiser<\/a> in Virginia. <\/p>\n<p>McMullin drew the endorsement of the United Utah Party earlier this month as the former CIA officer builds an independent coalition to defeat Lee in November, pending the incumbent\u2019s survival in the June primary. Despite a center-right policy platform, McMullin, for all intents and purposes, is a Democrat, working to oust a reliable conservative in the upper chamber while branding Republican opposition as dangerous to democracy itself. McMullin even pledged refusal to caucus with Republicans on Capitol Hill if elected. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a senator, he would be accountable to Utahns and to his conscience, not to party bosses or special interest groups which corrupt our politics today,\u201d McMullin Communications Director Kelsey Koenen Witt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/politics\/2022\/04\/26\/evan-mcmullin-says-he\/\">told<\/a> the Salt Lake Tribune in a statement published Tuesday. \u201cWhat Evan is doing is unique, and it is the only way to change our broken politics in Washington and bring better representation to the Senate for Utah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Refusal to caucus with either party then calls into question McMullin\u2019s prospective ability to effectively advocate for constituents of a large Western state where nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/sgp.fas.org\/crs\/misc\/R42346.pdf\">two-thirds<\/a> of its land is overseen by the federal government. Even independent Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine caucus with the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>McMullin began to build an anti-Trump coalition in Utah six years ago, when his presidential campaign which garnered less than 1 percent of the national popular vote earned <a href=\"https:\/\/elections.utah.gov\/Media\/Default\/2016%20Election\/2016%20General%20Election%20-%20Statewide%20Canvass%203.pdf\">22 percent<\/a> of the vote in Utah.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, McMullin drew praise from The Washington Post\u2019s resident leftist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/12\/11\/washington-post-columnist-jennifer-rubin-runs-away-asked-shes-conservative\/\">masquerading<\/a> as a \u201cconservative\u201d columnist, Jennifer Rubin, lavishing routine praise over critics of the Republican Party as holy saviors of Democracy. <\/p>\n<p>In her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/04\/25\/utah-democrats-evan-mcmullin-independent-mike-lee-model-to-save-democracy\/\">column<\/a> headlined, \u201cUtah could serve as a model for saving democracy,\u201d Rubin reviewed McMullin\u2019s record as a glorified NeverTrumper supporting the Democrats\u2019 impeachment efforts and later condemning <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/29\/7-insane-things-i-just-learned-about-how-u-s-elections-are-rigged\/\">legitimate questions<\/a> over election integrity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMcMullin has excoriated Republicans for plunging into conspiracy theories and using government power to exact revenge on businesses or political opponents,\u201d Rubin wrote. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a staunch supporter of Ukraine,\u201d she reminded while McMullin\u2019s campaign paints Lee as a pro-Russian puppet in an ad rated \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2022\/mar\/07\/evan-mcmullin\/evan-mcmullin-ad-portraying-gop-utah-sen-mike-lee-\/\">mostly false<\/a>\u201d by even left-wing PolitiFact.<\/p>\n<p>Since his campaign kickoff last fall, McMullin has become the Lincoln Project candidate of the Utah Senate race, drawing support from all the right corners of the political spectrum with a vengeance for the Republican base.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah Democrats endorsed failed independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin\u2019s Senate bid last weekend, solidifying the NeverTrump crusader\u2019s place as the liberal pick to unseat incumbent Sen. 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