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Utah Democrats have taken the unusual step by endorsing independent candidate Evan McMullin in his race against Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), who has faced questions about his fierce efforts to cancel the 2020 election to keep President Donald Trump in office. power.
Democrats voted 57% against 43% not to support their congressional candidate on Saturday. Instead, they hope to nominate McMullin, a Conservative who was never Trump, who failed to run for president in 2016 but did well in Utah.
“Today we took an important step in building a new coalition of Democrats, Republicans and independents to change our broken policy,” McMullin tweeted on Saturday. “I am grateful for the support of the Democratic delegates who voted to join us and for Cale Weston’s campaign of honor. Forward! ”
Democrat Kael Weston has asked for his party’s nomination, but a group of party members supporting McMullin, including former Democrat Congressman Ben McAdams, have persuaded delegates not to nominate anyone, allowing McMullin, a former CIA official, to get the most -great support.
The influence of Evan McMullin on the battle of the Senate in 2022
McMullin garnered much of the support – 22 percent – from Utah conservatives looking for an alternative to Trump in 2016 – including Lee, then a voice critic. Given that Utah has not sent a Democrat to the Senate for more than half a century, some party members have concluded that McMullin is their best chance of defeating Lee, a staunch supporter of Trump.
Text conversations reviewed by CNN earlier this month revealed that Lee, who had previously asked Trump to step down as president after recordings surfaced of him bragging about sexual violence, was working furiously to canceled the 2020 election to keep Trump in power.
According to reports to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Lee strongly supported the president’s efforts to overturn the election through legal challenges. Meadows provided communications to a House of Representatives committee investigating the deadly pro-Trump mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Lee offered his White House aide his “unequivocal support for you to exhaust all legal and constitutional remedies available to restore Americans’ faith in our elections” on November 7, 2020, the day news organizations predicted Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as the winner.
The lawmaker told Meadows he was spending “14 hours a day” on the effort and was contacting state lawmakers to find a loophole to give Congress a reason not to count the votes in the Biden election, which would confirm his victory. The legislature eventually abandoned its efforts when there was no evidence of widespread fraud, and attracting alternative voters to the United States was counterproductive.
McMullin sharply criticized Lee after the revelation, saying that the MP “committed an unforgivable betrayal of his oath and public trust.”
“Whether Lee accepts it or not, we are still a democracy and he is still accountable to us,” he told The Washington Post earlier. “He owes Utah and the whole country a full, honest account of his role in this brazen betrayal. He has no seat in the US Senate, and I ask Utah from all party affiliations to hold him accountable.
Lee was recently caught on camera evading questions about his attempt to cancel the election. In particular, Mitt Romney (R-Utah), one of Trump’s most vocal critics in the Senate, did not support Lee.
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