Utah’s Senate debate went off the rails on Monday when independent challenger Evan McMullin called incumbent Sen. Mike Lee a “traitor” to the Constitution.
McMullin, who has been endorsed by the state’s Democrat Party, attacked Sen. Lee for his actions leading up to the certification of the 2020 presidential election. The challenger went as far as to say Lee’s actions equated to the “greatest betrayal of the Constitution in U.S. history.”
However, the crowd immediately turned on McMullin’s nasty accusations and started booing the politician.
“I think you knew how important [the Electoral College] was when you sought to urge the White House, that had lost an election, to find fake electors to overturn the will of the people. Sen. Lee, that was the most egregious betrayal of our nation’s constitution, in its history, by a U.S. senator, I believe, and it will be your legacy,” McMullin said, at which point the crowd booed until silenced by the moderator.
“Sen. Lee, you advised spurious so-called legal efforts to mislead tens of millions of Americans that the election had been stolen, and congratulations, you succeeded. As recently as this year … you’re still casting doubt on the legitimacy of the election. You’re doing a tremendous disservice to this country, Sen. Lee. You have betrayed your oath to the Constitution with this,” he continued.
Lee refused to play into McMullin’s accusations and immediately demanded an apology.
“Evan, that’s not true. You know that’s not true. You, sir, you owe me an apology,” Lee responded to applause from the audience.
“In the days leading up to Jan. 6, when the votes were going to be opened and counted, I had a job to do. There were rumors circulating, suggesting that some states were considering switching out their slates of electors. If that were true, I would need to know about it,” he explained. “I did research on that. I made phone calls to figure out whether the rumors were true. The rumors were false. On that basis, I voted to certify the results of the election.”
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