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GOP Sen. Mike Lee's 'based' personal Twitter account briefly suspended after he tweeted at Japanese prime minister
The Utah senator had tweeted an ultimatum at Japanese PM Fumio Kishidia via his personal account, k…
Bryan Metzger
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GOP Sen. Mike Lee muses about Burning Man attendees converting to Christianity following disaster: 'God's judgement is real'
The Utah senator highlighted the wild activities that some festival attendees took part in, includi…
Bryan Metzger
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ripped into GOP Sen. Mike Lee after he blocked the creation of Latino and women's history museums during a dramatic Senate session
Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez and GOP Sen. Susan Collins both pushed back at Lee, who said Americans d…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Sen. Mike Lee spoke without a mask at Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court hearing less than 2 weeks after testing positive for the coronavirus
The Utah senator cited a doctor's note that "cleared" him to attend the hearing in person despite t…
Jake Lahut
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Utah Sen. Mike Lee tests positive for coronavirus 5 days after he went around hugging people without a mask at a packed White House event
The Republican attended events at the White House and Capitol Hill this week where he was photograp…
Rhea Mahbubani
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Mike Lee privately trashed 'my friend' Ted Cruz's efforts to overturn the election in texts to Mark Meadows
Lee's messages to Meadows underline the tensions among many Republicans in the days leading up to J…
Brent D. Griffiths
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Sen. Mike Lee privately fumed that his 'credibility is impaired' after Trump publicly attacked him even as Lee plotted to overturn the election
"I've been calling state legislators for hours today," Lee complained to Mark Meadows, referring to…
Bryan Metzger
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In the midst of the Capitol siege, Trump tried calling Tommy Tuberville but got the wrong senator
Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani tried reaching the junior senator from Alabama the other day but also …
Julie Gerstein
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GOP Sen. Mike Lee holds a narrow edge over independent Evan McMullin in the Utah Senate race: poll
In the latest Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll, Lee led McMullin 36%-34% among regi…
John L. Dorman
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GOP Sen. Mike Lee appeared to write an op-ed in the third person endorsing himself amid an unexpectedly tough re-election race
His opponent, Evan McMullin, also wrote an op-ed, but in the first person. The incident comes days …
Bryan Metzger
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GOP Sen. Mike Lee defended Trump's incitement of the deadly Capitol attack by saying 'everyone's entitled to a mulligan'
"Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone's entitled to a mulligan once in a while," Lee told Fox News in …
John Haltiwanger
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Sen. Mike Lee says he 'wasn't in any way encouraging' state legislators to submit alternate pro-Trump electors ahead of January 6
"We need something from state legislatures to make this legitimate and to have any hope of winning,…
Bryan Metzger
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GOP senator falls for sexually explicit Jimmy Carter death hoax
The fake letter announcing Jimmy Carter's death quoted the 39th president as calling his wife a "ba…
Bryan Metzger
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GOP Sen. Mike Lee proposes bill that could ban access to Internet porn in the US
For those who work in the adult film industry, the bill is a "threat to their business, to their li…
Katie Balevic
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Republican senator hops on Twitter video to hold town hall-style meeting after Trump-Russia special counsel was announced
It's easy to make an argument that doing online meetings instead of in-person ones is a wrong choic…
Julie Bort
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Trump re-endorses Mike Lee after DeSantis shoots ad backing the Utah senator, as simmering 2024 rivalry spills into public view
The ad was paid for by Club for Growth Action, an organization that Trump has had disagreements wit…
Kimberly Leonard
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GOP Sen. Mike Lee is in a tight contest with independent Evan McMullin in the Utah Senate race: poll
Jason Perry, the director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics, told Deseret News that Utah "has n…
John L. Dorman
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Apple is sending an exec to an antitrust hearing, following an awkward exchange of letters in which 2 senators accused it of refusing to attend
Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Mike Lee accused Apple of refusing to attend an antitrust hearing. Apple sa…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Republican Sen. Mike Lee says Democratic voting rights bill was 'written in hell by the devil himself'
H.R. 1, which recently passed the House, would overhaul campaign finance rules, set stricter rules …
Eliza Relman,Grace Panetta
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GOP Sen. Mike Lee furious after an 'insulting' Senate briefing on Trump's Iran strike: 'The worst briefing on a military issue I've seen in 9 years'
Lee told reporters that he "walked into that briefing undecided" on whether to support a War Powers…