Senate: GOP Sen. Mike Lee defeats independent candidate Evan McMullin // According to Fox News Decision, Mike Lee, the Republican incumbent in the Utah Senate Race will continue to hold. He defeats Evan McMullin (an independent candidate who also failed in his 2016 presidential campaign). The Utah Senate election was unexpectedly close as Lee, who was elected first in the Tea Party wave 2010 faced a challenge by Evan McMullin (an independent candidate and former CIA agent). McMullin aimed to capitalize on antiTrump sentiment by pointing out the former president’s denial about the 2020 election, while Lee focused on tying President Biden with high inflation and the crisis at U.S.-Mexico borders. HTML3_ MIDTERM ELUTIONS 2022: LIVE UPDATE Public opinion polls showed Lee was ahead of McMullin anywhere from 5 to 20 points during the midterm elections cycle. Even though Lee was able to outraise McMullin, McMullin received a boost late in the race from tech industry donors. McMullin said that if he is elected, he would not caucus in the Senate with Republicans or Democrats. However, his campaign paid Democrat aligned firms throughout the campaign and he raised funds through ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s fundraising group. GET LATEST 2022 MIDTERM ELCTION RESULTS FROM FOX NEWS ELECTION CCENTER In 2020, former President Donald Trump won Utah with 58% vote. However, McMullin campaigned for abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. He claimed that Lee was out of sync with the majority of the state on this issue. McMullin stated that he believes that McMullin, like many politicians in the country, has played politics with this clearly critical issue. “And they do this because they believe that if they divide Americans against one another they can raise more .