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‘I’m losing’: GOP Senator Mike Lee sends panicky fundraising email as challenger Evan McMullin surges
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‘I’m losing’: GOP Senator Mike Lee sends panicky fundraising email as challenger Evan McMullin surges
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Disgust with Donald Trump in Utah has propelled the state’s bizarre Senate race into one of the most closely watched races in the 2022 midterms.
“Just weeks before the Nov. 8 vote, Utah’s senior senator, Republican Mike Lee, is now acknowledging a real reelection threat from Evan McMullin, an anti-Donald Trump independent and former Republican challenging him in the state’s most competitive Senate race in decades,” the Associated Press reported Saturday. “Lee’s campaign insists it is confident heading into Election Day, but there are unmistakable signs of anxiety in a race shaping up as a referendum on the direction that Trump has taken the Republican Party.”
The report came only days after McMullin made Lee’s Jan. 6 role a top issue in their Senate debate.
“Lee recently sent out fundraising emails with the subject line: ‘I’m losing.’ In an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program, Lee begged the state’s other Republican senator, Mitt Romney, to ‘get on board’ and endorse him,” the AP reported. “And speaking to reporters after a debate, the two-term senator said what his campaign had previously avoided saying: ‘It’s close.’ In reliably Republican Utah, the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has emerged as a potent issue after the House committee investigating the riot published Lee’s text messages with then-President Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows.”
McMullin also got a boost on the issue on Friday from a Republican member of the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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