{"id":1704265,"date":"2022-10-20T14:03:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T18:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704265"},"modified":"2022-10-20T14:03:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T18:03:59","slug":"evan-mcmullin-is-a-democrat-and-a-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/evan-mcmullin-is-a-democrat-and-a-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan McMullin Is A Democrat And A Fraud"},"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-a-democrat-and-a-fraud%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=1704265&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--><p>Anyone who thinks Utah Senate candidate Evan McMullin is running as a true independent must be unfamiliar with where \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/310852-trump-calls-evan-mcmullin-mcmuffin-in-rally-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">McMuffin\u2019s<\/a>\u201d campaign comes from.<\/p>\n<p>For one, McMullin is running with the full endorsement of the Utah Democratic Party, which voted in April to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/04\/24\/politics\/utah-democrats-evan-mcmullin-mike-lee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">back<\/a> the former House staffer in his bid to unseat Republican Sen. Mike Lee. McMullin has leveraged the Democrat Party\u2019s fundraising machine ever since, soliciting donors through ActBlue while contracting Democratic strategists to the tune of <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mcmullins-campaign-paid-over-1-201732931.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$1.6 million<\/a>. So for an independent candidate, support behind the effort is remarkably partisan.<\/p>\n<p>A closer look at the origins of McMullin\u2019s 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/lincoln-project-fred-wellman-son\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">capitalize<\/a> on Trump Derangement Syndrome while masquerading as white knight Republicans. Few if any of the group\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2021\/02\/lincoln-project-toxic-workplace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scandal-ridden<\/a> co-founders, however, have worked on a legitimate Republican campaign in more than a decade, and at least one, Steve Schmidt, openly <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/news\/530393-longtime-gop-strategist-steve-schmidt-announces-hes-registering-democrat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">registered<\/a> as a Democrat in December 2020. <\/p>\n<p>The foundation for McMullin\u2019s Senate run with a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/05\/mike-lee-opponent-evan-mcmullin-embraces-left-wing-abortion-activism-denounces-pro-life-repeal-of-roe-v-wade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pro-abortion platform<\/a> lies in the candidate\u2019s first race as a failed presidential hopeful six years ago. McMullin\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/02\/19\/based-on-tax-filings-bill-kristols-been-a-democrat-for-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">show<\/a> Kristol has effectively been a Democrat for years while both worked to undermine Republican incumbents in Georgia\u2019s Senate contests last year. McMullin ultimately pulled less than 1 percent of the popular vote but garnered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/elections\/2016\/results\/president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">21 percent<\/a> in Utah and finished the race with $645,000 of <a href=\"https:\/\/kjzz.com\/news\/local\/both-are-100-true-as-attack-ads-roll-in-for-us-senate-race-senator-mike-lee-evan-mcmullin-campaign-november-election-2022-candidates-republican-unaffiliated-polls-political-points\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unpaid debt<\/a>. 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2016-election\/pence-campaigns-utah-stave-mcmullin-momentum-n673621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">send<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvan McMullin Isn\u2019t Just Running For President \u2014 He\u2019s Literally Building A New Party,\u201d ran a BuzzFeed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/mckaycoppins\/evan-mcmullin-isnt-just-running-for-president-hes-literally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a> on the day of Pence\u2019s Utah visit. Wilson was named in the story as a senior adviser to McMullin, who ultimately became the Lincoln Project\u2019s pet candidate in this year\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n<p>Even after founders fled the Lincoln Project when it became mired in <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2021\/02\/lincoln-project-accused-of-protecting-predator-john-weaver.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">child sex scandals<\/a>, Wilson remains a creature of the Beltway group that\u2019s become<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McMullin&#8217;s entire political career has been one of GOP obstruction and sabotage as a pet candidate of the Lincoln Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1704268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}