“Utah has spoken loudly and clearly,” Sen. Mike Lee said on election night.
Sen. Mike Lee makes his victory speech at the Utah Republican Party election night party at the Hyatt Regency in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022.Utah Sen. Mike Lee defeated independent challenger Evan McMullin on Tuesday night, in what has been the closest and most expensive U.S. Senate competition Utah has seen in decades.Lee secured his third term in the Senate, drawing Republicans would one seat closer to capturing a majority in the lawmaking body.
In a speech declaring himself victorious, Lee said he was grateful to residents of the state, calling the race “daunting and humbling.” The incumbent promised effective and aggressive oversight of the Biden administration, saying, ”We’re going to have some opportunity to go on the offensive and make a difference in the lives of individual Americans. We still have so much to do.”
“We’ve come together in a historic way and this effort — our effort — has shown the country there is another way forward, a constructive way forward,” McMullin said.
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