Evan McMullin speaks astatine an "Impeach and Remove" rally astatine the U.S. Capitol connected Dec. 18, 2019, successful Washington, D.C. | Larry French/Getty Images for MoveOn.org
Evan McMullin, an Utah autarkic campaigner for Senate who’s backed by Democrats, said Sunday helium won’t caucus with either enactment if elected.
“I volition support my independence. I volition not caucus with either side,” McMullin said connected NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
McMullin is supported by Democrats successful his contention against two-term Republican Sen. Mike Lee, who was endorsed by erstwhile President Donald Trump. A Democrat ran for the party’s nomination, but delegates decided not to nominate anyone pursuing a propulsion from McMullin’s campaign. The autarkic ran for president successful 2016, receiving 21.5 percent of the votes successful Utah.
The existent U.S. Senate includes 2 independents (Angus King of Maine and Bernie Sanders of Vermont) who some caucus with Democrats successful a 50-50 enactment breakdown.
Having an autarkic successful the Senate could besides springiness Utah accrued governmental influence, McMullin said. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.), presently the center-most dependable successful the body, has often formed a deciding ballot connected legislation.
“They’re much influential, I think, adjacent than the enactment bosses,” McMullin said of moderates.
Asked whether helium would assistance determine whether Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell earns the rubric of bulk person successful the caller Senate, McMullin said helium “won’t beryllium a portion of that, arsenic an independent.”
“For the parties and the bosses successful Washington, they’ll person to determine what this means connected their own,” helium said.
In a Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll conducted earlier this month, Lee led McMullin by 4 percent points among registered Utah voters, 41 percent to 37 percent. The poll’s borderline of mistake was 3.46 percent.
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