{"id":1713376,"date":"2022-10-27T12:03:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T16:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1713376"},"modified":"2022-10-27T12:03:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T16:03:46","slug":"evan-mcmullins-faux-independent-campaign-is-bankrolled-by-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/evan-mcmullins-faux-independent-campaign-is-bankrolled-by-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan McMullin\u2019s Faux \u2018Independent\u2019 Campaign Is Bankrolled By Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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-mcmullins-faux-independent-campaign-is-bankrolled-by-democrats%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=1713376&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>For an independent Senate candidate, Evan McMullin is banking on a partisan effort to get him across the finish line in his bid to oust GOP incumbent Utah Sen. Mike Lee.<\/p>\n<p>In April, McMullin officially became the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/20\/evan-mcmullin-is-a-democrat-and-a-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrats\u2019 nominee<\/a> with a formal endorsement from the Utah Democratic Party. The self-proclaimed independent candidate has relied on blue-dollar donors ever since, soliciting contributions through the Democratic Party\u2019s fundraising machine on ActBlue. McMullin\u2019s campaign has also contracted Democrat strategists to run his operation 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>. A list of McMullin\u2019s major donors examined by The Federalist removes any doubt that McMullin is a partisan Democrat disguised as an independent.<\/p>\n<p>McMullin\u2019s donors include former Democrat Sens. Sam Nunn and Bob Kerrey, who donated $1,000 and $5,800, respectively, according to public filings from the Federal Election Commission. A.J. Balukoff, a Democrat who ran for governor of Idaho in 2018, also contributed $5,800 to the party\u2019s effort in Utah. <\/p>\n<p>Other financiers of the Democrat campaign include several former members of the Obama administration. William Eacho, the U.S. ambassador to Austria between 2009 and 2013, donated $1,000 to McMullin. Former Federal Aviation Administration chief Michael Huerta, appointed under Obama, gave more than $3,000. McMullin also raked in $1,000 from Joel Rubin, former deputy assistant secretary of state for Obama, and $2,900 from Byron Auguste, a former Obama deputy assistant for economic policy.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, major activist donors of the Democratic Party are by no means absent from the partisan contest. LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman, who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/12\/22\/tech-billionaire-reid-hoffman-funded-legal-firm-for-spygate-linchpin-fusion-gps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">funded <\/a>the legal defense of Fusion GPS, donated $5,800 to the McMullin campaign. Rob Stein also put $5,100 into the Utah race before his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/03\/us\/politics\/rob-stein-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">death <\/a>in May.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/23\/tucker-carlson-evan-mcmullin-is-a-democrat-who-is-lying-to-utah-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tucker Carlson: Evan McMullin Is A Democrat Who Is Lying To Utah Voters<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>McMullin\u2019s list of contributors also overlaps with the Never Trump networks behind Utah Sen. Mitt Romney and the House Select Committee on Jan. 6. <\/p>\n<p>Federal Election Commission records show that Denver Riggleman, a former GOP congressman but then an investigator for the J6 committee, gave $2,900 to McMullin. In January, Riggleman, who was then still employed with the select committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/27\/j6-staffer-drops-out-of-liz-cheney-fundraiser-following-conflict-of-interest-allegations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dropped out <\/a>of a fundraiser for the panel\u2019s Vice Chair Liz Cheney following conflict-of-interest allegations. <\/p>\n<p>A former top adviser to Romney\u2019s 2012 presidential campaign, Stuart Stevens, put $1,000 behind McMullin while his former boss refuses to make an endorsement in the race. Romney stands alone among all 49 other Republican members of the upper chamber in his refusal to offer support for Mike Lee, the incumbent senator representing Romney\u2019s same state and party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t get involved in primaries and I don\u2019t endorse,\u201d Romney\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/minutes\/congress\/03-8-2022\/another-round-of-jan-6-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a>\u00a0Politico earlier this year, citing \u201ctwo friends\u201d in the contest. Days later, however, Romney attended a fundraiser for Cheney, who overwhelmingly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/16\/wyoming-republicans-throw-liz-cheney-out-of-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lost <\/a>her August primary to attorney Harriet Hageman. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Lee challenged Romney to support his campaign to keep Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., from reaching another term as majority leader. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think Mitt Romney wants Chuck Schumer to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For an independent Senate candidate, Evan McMullin is banking on a partisan effort to get him across the finish line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1713379,"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-1713376","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\/1713376","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=1713376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}