Sen. Mike Lee is poised to win Utah’s GOP Senate primary on Tuesday, which would normally put him on a glide path to November re-election in the deep-red Beehive State.
But Mr. Lee’s path to a third term may become the state’s most competitive Senate race in decades thanks to Evan McMullin, who ran as an independent against President Trump in 2016 and picked up more than 20% of the vote in Utah.
Mr. McMullin is now running against Lee as an independent and has the backing of state Democrats. He is spotlighting Mr. Lee’s alliance with the former president in a bid to defeat Mr.