Senate hopeful Evan McMullin faced rapturous booing from the debate crowd in Utah on Monday after calling incumbent Sen. Mike Lee (R) a traitor to the Constitution.
The stunning assertion happened as McMullin, an independent with the endorsement of Utah's Democratic Party, decried Lee's skepticism toward and behavior around certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election, going so far as to call it the greatest betrayal of the Constitution in U.S. history. After the negative reaction from the crowd, Lee accused McMullin of lying and demanded that he apologize.
"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.
