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Sen. Mike Lee says he works for Utahns, not McConnell — and explains why he hugged a Democrat

‘Mitch McConnell is my colleague from Kentucky — I don’t work for the senator from Kentucky, I work for the people of Utah,’ Lee says at Sutherland Institute event.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Sen. Mike Lee, right, joins Rick Larsen, President and CEO of the Sutherland Institute during a speaking engagement at the conservative public policy think tank on the University of Utah campus on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023.