Utah Democrats are getting creative to stay relevant
Independent Senate candidate Evan McMullin has Donkey Party support. Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images When a political party is in a hopeless minority position, sometimes it must get creative to stay relevant. Utah Democrats are doing exactly that, as the Washington Post reports:
As noted above, Lee got over his moral compunctions about the 45th president, and by 2020, he was cheerleading Trump’s efforts to overturn his presidential defeat. This flip-flop isn’t universally appreciated in the Beehive State, as shown by the very different conduct of Lee’s Senate colleague Mitt Romney, who voted twice to remove Trump from office.
The independent Senate prospect signaled immediately that he was building a fusion candidacy, as the Deseret News noted:
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