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McMullin [[Evan McMullin 2016 presidential campaign|ran for president]] in the 2016 election as an independent backed by the organization [[Better for America]]. He received support from some members of the "[[Never Trump]]" movement,<ref name="The Guardian 2016-08-08">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/08/republican-evan-mcmullin-presidential-run-trump|title=Republican Evan McMullin to launch presidential run against Trump|author1=Sabrina Siddiqui |author2=Lauren Gambino|author3=Amber Jamieson|date=August 8, 2016|work=The Guardian}}</ref> and polling taken late in the campaign showed him ahead of [[major party]] nominees [[Donald Trump]] and [[Hillary Clinton]] in his [[Favorite son|home state]] of [[2016 United States presidential election in Utah|Utah]].<ref name="WaPo 2016-10-26">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/10/26/why-donald-trump-could-lose-red-utah-mormon-america-has-found-another-candidate/ |title=Why Donald Trump could lose red Utah: Mormon America has found another candidate. |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=October 26, 2016 |access-date=October 26, 2016 |author=Bailey, Sarah Pulliam}}</ref> McMullin received 21.5% of the vote in Utah, taking third place in that state behind Trump and Clinton.<ref name="LA Times 2016-09-09">David Montero, [http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-na-trump-utah-20161109-story.html In conservative Utah, Trump underperforms, but so does McMullin], ''Los Angeles Times'' (November 9, 2016).</ref> Nationally, he received 0.5% of the popular vote.<ref name="Leip Atlas 2016 Pres Results">{{cite news |last=Leip |first=David |date=December 17, 2016 |title=2016 Presidential General Election Results |url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2016 |newspaper=[[Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections]]|location=[[Newton, Massachusetts]] |access-date=December 17, 2016}}</ref>
Following his defeat, McMullin emerged as a vocal critic of the [[Presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]].<ref name="WaPo Rubin 2017-01-25" /><ref name="Trump's Threat to the Constitution">Evan McMullin, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/opinion/trumps-threat-to-the-constitution.html Trump's Threat to the Constitution], ''The New York Times'' (December 5, 2016).</ref> He endorsed [[Joe Biden]] in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]].<ref name=CountryOverParty>{{cite tweet|user=EvanMcMullin|number=1299202749947686920|title=America is a journey to a more perfect realization of our founding ideals. We now face a choice between the road to freedom and the road to tyranny. Tonight at @PrinciplesCon, I explained that I'll put country over party in November and vote for @JoeBiden.}}</ref> He has been involved in early discussions about forming a new center-right political party,<ref name=Reid>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-party-exclusive/exclusive-dozens-of-former-republican-officials-in-talks-to-form-anti-trump-third-party-idUSKBN2AB07P|title=Exclusive: Dozens of former Republican officials in talks to form anti-Trump third party|author=Tim Reid|date=February 10, 2021|access-date=February 10, 2021|publisher=Reuters}}</ref> and organized the May 2021 release of the political manifesto "[[A Call for American Renewal]]" with [[Miles Taylor (security expert)|Miles Taylor]].<ref name=TaylorMcMullin>{{cite web |title='A call for American renewal': A manifesto from over 150 Republican Party reformers |url=https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2021/5/13/22432664/republicans-third-party-trump-threaten-to-split-from-gop-evan-mcmullin-miles-taylor-liz-cheney |website=Deseret News |date=May 13, 2021 |access-date=May 14, 2021}}</ref> In 2022, McMullin launched a campaign as an independent in the [[2022 United States Senate election in Utah|U.S. Senate election in Utah]], receiving the endorsement of the [[Utah Democratic Party]]. He was defeated in the November 8 general election by incumbent Republican [[Mike Lee]], losing by
== Early life and education ==
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