On election eve, just how long are the odds that Evan McMullin will be our next president? The former CIA agent and independent conservative candidate has ballot access in just 43 states—32 in which his name is actually on the ballot and another 11 that allows his name to be written in. Despite the…
"I never vote for anyone. I always vote against." –W.C. Fields
Draper, Utah
In an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier, Donald Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, complained about the independent candidacy of Evan McMullin. The conservative former CIA agent and congressional staffer has been gaining on Trump in Utah (an historically strong Republican state) and…
Draper, Utah
Draper, Utah
An independent conservative presidential candidate with no national name recognition has statistically tied the two major-party candidates in Utah. The latest Rasmussen poll of Utah finds Republican Donald Trump with 30 percent support, independent Evan McMullin with 29 percent, and Democrat…
A new poll of likely voters in Utah finds the Republican nominee for president tied with the Democrat—a remarkable development in a state that has voted for every GOP nominee since 1964. In the new Deseret News poll, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are tied among voters in the Beehive State at 26…
"We have to think of the future and not of the past. This also applies in a small way to our own affairs at home. There are many who would hold an inquest in the House of Commons on the conduct of the Governments—and of Parliaments, for they are in it, too—during the years which led up to this…
McKay Coppins at BuzzFeed reports that independent conservative presidential candidate Evan McMullin will announce his running mate is 35-year-old Republican consultant Mindy Finn. Here's Coppins:
"We need to start voting for leaders whom we actually want to see in office," Evan McMullin says as we sit together in a small conference room. "Or we will never get them."
In this episode of THE WEEKLY STANDARD Confab, Fred Barnes tells host Eric Felten about the fight for Virginia and the big candidate showdown Monday night. Jonathan V. Last reports on the quixotic Evan McMullin quest to derail Donald Trump. And Ethan Epstein explains how D.C. got two miles of track…
"We need to start voting for leaders whom we actually want to see in office,” Evan McMullin says as we sit together in a small conference room. "Or we will never get them."
"We need to start voting for leaders whom we actually want to see in office,” Evan McMullin says as we sit together in a small conference room. "Or we will never get them."
Former Washington senator Slade Gorton endorsed independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin Friday, describing the former CIA agent as a fresh face that will unify America.
A new poll of likely voters in Utah shows Republican Donald Trump with a 15-point lead over his next closest competitor, Democrat Hillary Clinton. But the GOP nominee has only a plurality of support in a field that includes third party and independent candidates, and he remains very unpopular in…
A former CIA operative and obscure Capitol Hill staffer by the name of Evan McMullin has begun a longshot conservative bid against Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Gary Johnson, and Jill Stein.
Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin, a former CIA officer in the Middle East and South Asia, presented himself to frustrated Americans Sunday as a fresh-faced unifier with foreign policy experience.
When Evan McMullin was growing up just outside of Seattle, he wanted to be a filmmaker. He and his friends would film their own movies around the neighborhood and edit them on his VCR. “Some of them were pretty good," he says.
It seems a near-impossible hill for Evan McMullin, independent candidate for president, to climb. With the filing deadlines in half of the states already past and several more approaching in the coming days, the unknown 40-year-old former CIA agent doesn't have a straightforward way even to appear…
A former CIA counterterrorism officer and congressional staffer is launching a long-shot third-party bid for president, aiming to provide a conservative alternative to Republican nominee Donald Trump. The candidate's name is Evan McMullin and his campaign staff consists of operatives from the super…