{"id":150995,"date":"2022-09-24T22:51:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T22:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/gop-sen-mike-lee-holds-a-narrow-edge-over-independent-evan-mcmullin-in-the-utah-senate-race-poll"},"modified":"2022-09-24T22:51:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T22:51:33","slug":"gop-sen-mike-lee-holds-a-narrow-edge-over-independent-evan-mcmullin-in-the-utah-senate-race-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/gop-sen-mike-lee-holds-a-narrow-edge-over-independent-evan-mcmullin-in-the-utah-senate-race-poll","title":{"rendered":"GOP Sen. Mike Lee holds a narrow edge over independent Evan McMullin in the Utah Senate race: poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mike Lee of Utah. AP Photo\/Phelan M. Ebenhack, FileMike Lee leads Evan McMullin 36%-34% in a new Deseret News\/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll.The Utah Senate race is shaping up to be one of the most competitive statewide contests in years.The key to victory is the support of the state&#8217;s moderate voters, per Hinckley director Jason Perry.Republican Sen. Mike Lee holds a narrow lead over independent candidate Evan McMullin in the Utah Senate race, in what is shaping up to be one of the most competitive statewide races in recent memory in the longtime GOP stronghold.In the latest Deseret News\/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll &#8212; among registered voters &#8212; Lee earned the support of 36% of respondents, while 34% backed McMullin and 13% opted for another candidate. Per the polling results, 16% of respondents also indicated that they were undecided.Among likely voters, the race remains largely unchanged, with Lee leading McMullin 37% to 34%, with 16% of respondents stating that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Lee leads Evan McMullin 36%-34% in a new Deseret News\/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll. The Utah Senate race is shaping up to be one of the most competitive statewide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[293,88,42,43],"class_list":["post-150995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-congress-courts","tag-elections","tag-politics","tag-u-s-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}