GOP Sen. Mike Lee won Utah's U.S. Senate race night against independent challenger Evan McMullin, securing a third term in office.
This was the most competitive U.S. Senate race Lee has encountered since first winning his seat in 2010. About a week before Nov. 8, an Emerson Collegehe reportedly exchanged with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows revealed he looked into tactics to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.Between the lines:
The Utah Democratic Party was so determined to unseat Lee that it backed McMullin over one of its own candidates to increase its chances of defeating the two-term incumbent. McMullin, a Latter-Day Saint and former CIA officer, had strong name recognition in Utah after he ran as an independent candidate during the 2016 presidential election. Lee saidDemocrats hoped McMullin would appeal to the state's moderate voters and RepublicansThe party has not sent a Utah Democrat to the Senate in nearly half a century.
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