Cruz blasts ‘deceptive’ tactics in Democrat-free Utah election featuring Evan McMullin against Sen. Lee

Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz, within the midst of a multi-state bus tour to stump for GOP candidates in key races, tore into anti-Trump Utah senate candidate Evan McMullin, who’s mounting a problem in a decent, Democrat-less race towards Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.

Cruz claimed the Democratic Get together is attempting to deceive voters within the Beehive State by declining to run an express Democrat nominee, and as a substitute reportedly throwing a lot of their help behind McMullin – a former CIA officer and Home Republican Convention staffer.

“This race right here in Utah – Mike Lee, sadly, has an actual race – I am right here campaigning for Mike [who] is phenomenal,” he mentioned.

“I imagine Mike Lee is likely one of the best senators ever to have served in america Senate. He’s sensible. He is a constitutional scholar. He’s a fierce and ferocious fighter over and over for a decade. Mike and I’ve been facet by facet, shoulder to shoulder, combating to defend freedom, defend the Structure.”

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Cruz went on to model the unbiased challenger “McMuffin,” borrowing a nickname initially dubbed by Donald Trump in 2016, when McMullin mounted a presidential bid towards him.

“The Democrats are doing one thing actually misleading and dishonest. The Democrats haven’t run a, quote, ‘Democrat’ candidate,” Cruz mentioned.

“As an alternative, you have acquired McMuffin who’s theoretically working as an unbiased… however the Democrat Get together in Utah has endorsed him. They’re elevating thousands and thousands of {dollars} for him via ActBlue, the identical entity they used to help Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and AOC.”

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“He voted for Joe Biden,” Cruz claimed, whereas in 2020, McMullin had tweeted {that a} vote for the Delaware Democrat is not a dedication to help his each resolution however to “defend the republic [and] take again our authorities from Vladimir Putin and Trump household corruption.”

McMullin beforehand riffed on the “McMuffin” moniker, asking Trump on social media if it is a “true story” that Egg McMuffins from McDonalds style higher than steaks from the previous president’s Trump Tower grill in New York.

McMullin notably helped spearhead a letter from a number of Republican figures threatening to depart the get together if it doesn’t “reform” itself within the speedy aftermath of the Home GOP Convention’s ouster of then-Chairwoman Elizabeth Cheney of Wyoming.

On “Hannity,” Cruz additional claimed Democrats in Utah deliberately should not working a candidate within the hopes that, combining their help with “even simply 5%” of informal voters on the GOP facet, they will unseat Lee.

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Cruz accused McMullin of being “complicit [with] the cultural Marxists doing harm to our nation,” and warned he might help Democratic election federalization laws.

For his half McMullin has defended his run towards Lee as a unifying effort, to – in his phrases – “stand as much as the damaged politics of division and extremism.”

McMullin beforehand cited his CIA service as first-hand witness to “extremist actions that robbed folks of their primary freedoms.”

His marketing campaign platform opposes gerrymandering and “electoral corruption,” the affect of cash in politics and repeatedly voices help for “widespread floor.”

Host Sean Hannity dubbed McMullin a “Romney Republican” – in reference to the man Utahns apprehension towards Trumpism.

McMullin has been endorsed by some Republicans as effectively, together with former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, a Trump critic and onetime RNC Chairman.

Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean additionally lended his help, in line with the Deseret Information.