We’ve been hearing more about the Evan McMullin Senate campaign in Utah than we’ve been hearing about Beto O’Rourke’s gubernatorial run in Texas, which we’re guessing means the mainstream media still thinks McMullin has a chance. Reuters recently looked into how McMullin could become “a key US Senate power broker.” Fox News’ Juan Williams wants us to “think of Evan as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars trying to blow up the Empire’s starship.” Among his supporters are Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
The Associated Press reports Monday on the millions Democrats and tech moguls are pouring into the McMullin campaign.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and has webbed feet like a duck … in this case, it’s a Democrat. https://t.co/ZUXrj9Xmxk
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) October 31, 2022
Sam Metz reports:
Tech leaders and Democratic Party-aligned groups are among those funneling millions into Utah to support independent Evan McMullin’s bid to unseat Republican Sen. Mike Lee.
The race has been inundated with outside spending, with super PACs unaffiliated with either the Lee or McMullin campaign spending heavily on glossy mailers and attack ads on the local affiliates of the four major television networks in the lead-up to the midterm elections.
The sheer amount of money pouring into the race reflects how McMullin has turned Utah from a political afterthought to a legitimate battleground. The outside spending supporting him also illustrates the traditional partisan dynamics at play in the independent-versus-Republican race and the emerging reality that some Democratic Party-aligned groups and donors see McMullin — an anti-abortion conservative — as one path toward preventing Republicans from retaking control of the Senate.
An anti-abortion conservative? Yeah, McMullin’s gone pretty squishy on that issue.
A lot of people in the comments seem to think that @BasedMikeLee is the senator’s account. It doesn’t matter; a new poll shows that those millions pouring into the race aren’t making the difference the donors think they’re making:
UTAH POLL: @MikeLeeforUtah 49%@EvanMcMullin 39%
Someone else 4%
Undecided 4%https://t.co/FkTpMqlwE3 pic.twitter.com/xwfdntZy1L— Emerson College Polling (@EmersonPolling) October 31, 2022
Glad McMuffin head is getting punched down like the pencil-neck sellout coward that he is.
— Weapon of Kings (@Imperius__13) October 31, 2022
Egg McMuffin for the L!
— Codpiece of Doom (@Citizen010101) October 31, 2022
McMuffin DOA
— Bryson (@chronickloesel) October 31, 2022
Mike will win by over 15 points
— Valentine (@hun_chooo) October 31, 2022
McMuffin has a history of being overpolled.
— Tober (@bertento) October 31, 2022
— DeSantis 2022 Fan 🇺🇸🐘🗳️ (@DeSantisFan2024) October 31, 2022
Absurd.
If @EvanMcMullin was an independent he wouldn’t be fundraising on ActBlue, the fundraising platform only available to Democrats and candidates who “share their values.”
He uses it because it’s the most efficient way for out-of-state Democrats to fund his con. #utpol https://t.co/QO4E0UsoAR pic.twitter.com/j54Kprztb5
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) October 13, 2022
He definitely wouldn’t be using far-left advertising and online fundraising vendors.
It is interesting that @EvanMcMullin seems to pay his liberal vendors while he’s never paid his Utah-based 2016 campaign vendors. #utpol pic.twitter.com/S4utJaRdCa
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) October 14, 2022
McMullin seems to be determined to be the perpetual loser that Beto O’Rourke is. Start out running for president and then work your way down.
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Related:
‘NOTHING independent about him’: Tucker absolutely DECIMATES Evan McMullin in brutal — and totally deserved — segment (watch)https://t.co/IRXJivxSZY
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 23, 2022
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