The 2022 U.S. Senate Election, Incumbent Senator Mike Lee (R) is running for Reelection. But this will be the First Senate Election in Utah’s History, where there is No Democratic Nominee, as the Utah Democratic Party, a Minor Party in Utah, chose to endorse Evan McMullin (I), an Independent Candidate.
"This is a turn of the screw," said Jacqueline Salit, President of Independent Voting.
Salit aided McMullin's Independent Presidential run in 2016, helping him to secure a Ballot Line in South Carolina, and to access Contact with Independent Voters.
"Evan is a conservative who has a radically democratic vision of a new kind of politics in this country. While he and I might disagree on certain issues, the fact that he is breaking the rules of the partisan game is a righteous cause."
McMullin is also being endorsed by former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele, and former Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean.
In a joint statement to Supporters, they wrote: "As former Party chairs (of two diametrically opposed groups), we’ve never come together like this for a candidate. Actually, we’ve never both been asked to support the same U.S. Senate candidate in a high-profile battleground race before. Just like Evan McMullin’s campaign, this level of unity is unprecedented. .... He is building a cross-partisan movement that is doing something rarely accomplished, or even attempted, in the political world."
Utah Politics gets a further Complication with James Hansen, running as the Libertarian Party Candidate for U.S. Senate, positioning himself as an alternative to both McMullin and Lee.
Salit observed, "Now that Utah independents have gotten the Democrats to endorse, we'd sure like to see some tactical unity among the independents. Maybe next time."
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