{"id":1732144,"date":"2022-11-09T13:32:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T18:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1732144"},"modified":"2022-11-09T13:32:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T18:32:52","slug":"mitt-romney-hardest-hit-by-mike-lees-win-in-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitt-romney-hardest-hit-by-mike-lees-win-in-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney Hardest Hit By Mike Lee\u2019s Win In Utah"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fmitt-romney-hardest-hit-by-mike-lees-win-in-utah%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=1732144&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>Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee captured a third term Tuesday night after his same-state GOP colleague in the upper chamber de facto backed Lee\u2019s challenger, a Democrat masquerading as an independent. <\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney, the junior senator from Utah, was the only Republican senator who refused Lee an endorsement against failed 2016 third-party presidential candidate Evan McMullin. In April, Romney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/minutes\/congress\/03-8-2022\/another-round-of-jan-6-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told <\/a>Politico his refusal to endorse in the contest was due to having \u201ctwo friends\u201d in the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t get involved in primaries and I don\u2019t endorse,\u201d Romney said, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/26\/mitt-romney-to-fundraise-for-liz-cheney-at-vaccine-mandated-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attending <\/a>a fundraiser for Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney days later. Cheney went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/16\/wyoming-republicans-throw-liz-cheney-out-of-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lose <\/a>her August primary by more than 36 points to Wyoming attorney Harriet Hageman. And had many Democrat voters not changed their party registration to support Cheney in the GOP contest, her losing margins would have been <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/18\/analysis-if-not-for-democrat-voters-cheneys-loss-would-have-been-even-more-devastating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">far wider<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>McMullin ran as a self-proclaimed independent but pulled the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/04\/24\/politics\/utah-democrats-evan-mcmullin-mike-lee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorsement <\/a>of the Democrats in April as the party\u2019s official candidate and solicited donations through ActBlue. His campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/01\/evan-mcmullin-lies-about-campaigns-use-of-democrat-fundraising-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">funded <\/a>by Democrats, became nearly indistinguishable from Democrats in other states, considering his <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> and hyperventilating about democracy supposedly being in danger if Republicans won. On the debate stage in October, McMullin fabricated charges against Lee, saying the incumbent had conspired with the White House to hijack the Electoral College and turn the 2020 election for President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/20\/evan-mcmullin-is-a-democrat-and-a-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Evan McMullin Is A Democrat And A Fraud<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you knew how important it was when you sought to urge the White House that had lost an election to find fake electors to overturn the will of the people,\u201d McMullin said. \u201cSen. Lee, that was the most egregious betrayal of our nation\u2019s Constitution in its history by a U.S. senator, I believe, and it will be your legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An honest examination of events, however, reveals McMullin was lying. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/20\/peril-woodward-costa-graham-lee-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a>\u00a0to reporting by Robert Costa and Bob Woodward, two favorites of the Washington establishment, Lee\u2019s knowledge of a campaign seeking alternate electors extended merely to \u201ca social media campaign \u2014 an amateur push with no legal standing,\u201d not a real plot by the White House. <\/p>\n<p>Lee explained what happened on stage. \u201cIn the days leading up to Jan. 6, when the votes were going to be open and counted, I had a job to do,\u201d Lee said at Utah Valley University. He continued:<\/p>\n<p>There were rumors circulating suggesting that some states were considering switching up their slates of electors. If that were true, I would need to know about that. I did research on that. I made phone calls to figure out whether the rumors were true. The rumors were false. On that basis, I voted to certify the results of the elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/16\/blockbuster-j6-committee-expose-mike-lee-and-chip-roy-love-the-constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blockbuster J6 Committee Expose: Mike Lee And Chip Roy Love The Constitution<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lee then <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/12\/mike-lee-to-mitt-romney-if-you-dont-want-schumer-leading-the-senate-support-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">challenged <\/a>Romney on Fox News in October to get behind his campaign or else risk losing out on a Senate majority. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think Mitt Romney wants Chuck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney, the junior senator from Utah, was the only Republican senator who refused to endorse Mike Lee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1732147,"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-1732144","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\/1732144","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=1732144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1732147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}