Thu Oct 13, 2022 – 10:02 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – President Donald Trump slammed Utah’s liberal Republican Senator Mitt Romney, a failed 2012 presidential candidate, for not backing pro-life, conservative Utah Senator Mike Lee in his 2022 re-election bid.
Sen. Romney has refused to endorsed his fellow Utah Republican senator, which is seen as as tacit endorsement of liberal Evan McMullin, an “independent” candidate who opposes the reversal of Roe v. Wade and ran for president in 2016 with the primary goal of stopping Trump from becoming president by winning Utah.
McMullin is a former congressional staffer and CIA operative who was recruited by Never Trumpers to run in 2016.
“Mike Lee is an outstanding Senator who has been abused, in an unprecedented way, by a fellow Republican Senator from his own State, something which rarely has happened in political History,” Trump wrote in a statement on Wednesday. “Such an event would only be understandable if Mike did not perform his duties as a United States Senator, but he has, and he has performed them well.”
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