Democrats in the red stronghold of Utah have backed former presidential contender Evan McMullin in a bid to unseat Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) later this year.
In Utah, Democrats have long struggled to pull in even 30 percent of the vote, with elections being dominated by Republicans. In 2016, Lee raked in 68.2 percent of the vote to Democrat Misty Snow’s 27.1 percent. During the presidential election the same year, Hillary Clinton won only 27.46 percent support in the state.
However, though Republican candidate Donald Trump in 2016 took the state with 45.54 percent of the vote, independent Evan McMullin, a former CIA agent and Utah local, won a surprising 21.54 percent of the vote.
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