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How Fox News is giving Mike Lee an unfair advantage over challenger Evan McMullin: attorney
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How Fox News is giving Mike Lee an unfair advantage over challenger Evan McMullin: attorney
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In Utah’s 2022 U.S. Senate race, the two main contenders are not a Democrat and a Republican, but rather, a right-wing MAGA Republican — incumbent Sen. Mike Lee — and a right-wing Never Trump conservative who is running as an independent: Evan McMullin. The of them butted heads over a variety of issues during a debate on Monday night, October 17, and McMullin hasn’t been shy about calling Lee out for promoting the Big Lie after Donald Trump lost the 2000 presidential election.
Attorney Elie Mystal, who is often featured as a legal expert/political pundit on MSNBC, analyzes the Lee/McMullin debate in an article published by The Nation on October 19. Mystal stresses that Lee deserves to be voted out of office for pushing the Big Lie, but he laments that because viewers of Fox News, Newsmax and other right-wing media outlets live in an information bubble, Lee will likely pull off a narrow victory. Polls are showing a close race, with Lee enjoying narrow single-digit leads.
“Utah Sen. Mike Lee should lose his reelection bid and be drummed out of office for his support of the scheme to install fake electors to overturn the 2020 election,” Mystal argues. “Text messages from Lee to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows revealed that Lee was an early and vocal advocate of the idea that Trump should challenge the results of the election he lost.”
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Mystal notes that Lee “finds himself in a tight race for reelection against Republican turned independent Evan McMullin.”
