“Help me win reelection. Help us do that. You can get your entire family to donate to me,' Utah Republican, Sen. Mike Lee pleaded.
Sens. Mitt Romney , right, and Mike Lee , chat prior to the day's proceedings at the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020.
Lee and Romney were — and evidently remain — antagonists in the lingering drama of Jan. 6, 2021. Lee played a key role in support of President Donald Trump’s attempt to subvert the 2020 election and cling to power. Romney was a stalwart opponent of it. Jason Perry, director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah, which conducted the poll, stressed that Lee “is still in the driver’s seat,” but, he said, with so many centrist voters still undecided, “this is one still to watch.”“Let’s be clear, Mike Lee is leading this race,” said Matt Lusty, an adviser to the Lee campaign. “Every reliable poll shows Sen.
Romney, who declined to be interviewed for this article, has explained his decision not to endorse Lee or McMullin by saying “both are good friends.” Ultimately, Lee backed away from those plans and voted to certify Biden’s election, unlike eight of his Senate colleagues, a point that the Lee campaign stresses.“Sen. Lee, who called himself a constitutional conservative and who swore an oath to the Constitution, betrayed the Constitution in an effort to overturn the will of the people by recruiting fake electors to topple American democracy,” McMullin said in the interview.
“Politics is an ongoing character test, and the people of Utah are going to have to ask themselves if he’s passed,” said Stevens, the former Romney aide. Though McMullin says the preservation of democracy is the organizing theme of his campaign, he has branched out to tar Lee as “the most ineffective member of the Senate,” contrasting his ideological stands with Romney’s productivity.
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