(Salt Lake City, UT) — Republican Senator Mike Lee filed the paperwork this morning to run for a third term. Lee posted a picture to Twitter, showing him in the State Elections’s Office to make his campaign official. Senator Lee could face an uphill battle within his own party as […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An independent candidate challenging Sen. Mike Lee raised more than the incumbent Republican in the final quarter of 2021, setting the stage for a costly Senate race in Utah where sitting Republicans typically cruise to victory. Campaign finance filings detailing the final three months of […]
(Washington, DC) — Senator Mike Lee is joining a group of Senate Republicans who plan to threaten a federal government shutdown over the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement for private businesses. According to Politico, Lee and Republicans will drag their feet on a stopgap measure to keep the government funded […]
(Washington, DC) — Senator Mike Lee says Congress should take a hand in resolving supply chain issues currently affecting the United States. The Utah Republican is sponsoring a bill that would temporarily relax some federal regulations related to U.S. ports and shipping. Lee says the bill could get products off […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Senator Mike Lee is getting strong support from Utah Republicans who are likely to vote in next year’s GOP primary. A new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll shows Lee favored by 53-percent of those asked. Only seven-percent of those polled supported Republican candidate Becky […]
(Undated) — Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee is urging Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia to leave the Democratic party. Manchin, a centrist Democrat, has been seen as a stumbling block for President Biden’s spending agenda by more progressive members of the party. He’s said he’d become an independent if […]
(Washington, DC) — Utah Senator Mike Lee is joining a group of Republican colleagues in asking the Department of Justice to stay out of fights between parents and local school boards. Lee and 11 other GOP senators sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland yesterday saying the DOJ should […]
(Washington, DC) — Republican Senator Mike Lee was focused on how Facebook approves advertisements on its platforms during a Senate hearing yesterday. Senator Lee talked with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen about how often the tech giant relies on artificial intelligence to approve ads, and then brought examples of fake ads […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A third-party candidate is looking to take Utah Senator Mike Lee’s seat when it comes up for re-election next year. Evan McMullin ran for president in 2016 as an independent and garnered about 21-percent of the vote in the state. Now, he’s gunning for Lee’s […]
(Washington, DC) — Senator Mike Lee’s first attempt to place broader exemptions into any vaccine mandates proposed by the Biden administration will not be moving forward. The Utah Republican introduced a bill in the Senate yesterday that would grant an exemption based on anyone’s personal belief that they should not […]
