Mitt Romney will not seek reelection in 2024

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42. Evan McMullin is not a Democrat, he was a lifelong Rethug until Trump, then he went

independent.

The Democratic Party endorsed him for Senate in 2022, but that was just to try and get rid of the POS Mike Lee.

McMullin is a Never Trumper, but he would never fit in the Dem party with of his RW views. for instance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_McMullin#Political_positions

McMullin supports a reduction in the corporate income tax and individual income tax, as well as the estate tax.

McMullin favors cuts to entitlement programs such as Social Security, and has proposed means-testing the program and raising the retirement age.

McMullin supported overturning Roe v. Wade in 2016. After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, McMullin issued a statement saying, "I believe the never-ending conflict over abortion laws threatens a public health crisis and further divide the country on an issue where there is common ground." He described himself as "pro-life" and said that he "opposed politicians at the extremes of both parties on the issue, those who would ban all abortions without exceptions and those who oppose all restrictions." McMullin said that states should be largely responsible for setting abortion policy and supported Utah's abortion trigger law as "a good starting place."

During his 2016 presidential campaign, McMullin said that if elected, he would appoint originalist judges to the Supreme Court, "in the mold of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas".