Well-past-his-sell-by-date former presidential candidate Evan McMullin is now the de facto Democratic nominee for Senate in Utah, running against incumbent Republican Mike Lee. McMullin insists he’s an independent, but the Utah Democratic Party endorsed him.
In a recent fundraising email, McMullin’s campaign writes:
After a new poll showed us in a near-statistical tie with Senator Lee, a far-right super PAC announced it was spending $2 MILLION to prop up Lee’s campaign.
That is the type of dark-money spending we’ll be up against from now through Election Day.
It’s also the kind of so-called “dark money spending” that helped McMullin in his presidential bid in 2016! The Lincoln Project is a super PAC, will McMullin denounce their efforts as sinister “dark money spending”? Or is McMullin like almost every other candidate in politics who denounces the super PACs that work against him but quietly assents to the super PACs that work to help elect him?
As for that near-statistical tie that McMullin’s campaign touts, it is a poll of registered voters with no likely-voter screen, conducted over eleven days, showing a four-point lead for Lee. But hey, with everything in the country going so well, it’s entirely reasonable to assume that GOP enthusiasm and Democratic enthusiasm will be the same in November, right?