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Will Utah voters hold Sen. Mike Lee accountable?*
For his apostacy to the Constitution and brazen dishonesty?
Despite Mike Lee’s shameful begging on Fox News, even the junior Republican Senator from Utah Mitt Romney won’t endorse this Trump sycophant.
During the heated debate between incumbent Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Independent challenger Evan McMullin on October 17, 2022, the candidates were asked whether President Biden “fairly” won the 2020 election. Lee said Biden “was chosen in the only election that matters — the election by the Electoral College.”
You might remember that the date for states to cast their respective votes and certify their slates for the Electoral College was December 14, 2020. Electoral College timeline of events. The states met the deadline.
McMullin took the opportunity to bring up Lee’s incriminating text exchanges with then Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, which began November 7, 2020 and continued well after the December 14, 2020 deadline to January 4, 2021, and accused Lee of participating in Trump’s Big Lie/Stop-the-Steal campaign to overturn the election:
“Senator Lee, that was the most egregious betrayal of our nation’s Constitution in its history by a U.S. senator, I believe, and it will be your legacy. . . . You were there to stand up for our Congress and for our…