Jeff Merchant: Utah Democrats want to see Mike Lee gone, not for the party’s benefit but for the country’s.

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(Briana Scroggins | Special to The Tribune) Joshua Rush, a volunteer with the McMullin campaign, hands out placards during the Utah Democratic Convention at Cottonwood High School in Murray, Utah on Saturday, April 23, 2022.

| May 2, 2022, 5:00 p.m.

Jeff Merchant: Utah Democrats want to see Mike Lee gone, not for the party’s benefit but for the country’s.

It was painful for many Democrats to back Evan McMullin over Kael Weston, but it is for the best.

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