45 Facts About Evan McMullin

David Evan McMullin was born on April 2,1976 and is an American political candidate and former Central Intelligence Agency officer.

Evan McMullin was a CIA operations officer from 2001 to 2010.

Evan McMullin was a senior adviser on national security issues for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2015 and served as a chief policy director for the House Republican Conference in the US House of Representatives from January 2015 through July 2016.

Evan McMullin left the Republican Party in 2016 after Donald Trump became the party's presumptive presidential nominee.

Evan McMullin ran for president in the 2016 election as an independent backed by the organization Better for America.

Evan McMullin received support from some members of the "Never Trump" movement, and polling taken late in the campaign showed him ahead of major party nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in his home state of Utah.

Evan McMullin endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 US presidential election.

Evan McMullin has been involved in early discussions about forming a new center-right political party, and organized the May 2021 release of the political manifesto "A Call for American Renewal" with Miles Taylor.

In 2022, Evan McMullin launched a campaign as an independent in the US Senate election in Utah, receiving the endorsement of the Utah Democratic Party.

Evan McMullin was defeated in the November 8 general election by incumbent Republican Mike Lee, losing by a margin of ten percent in the closest Senate election in Utah since 1976.

Evan McMullin was born on April 2,1976 in Provo, Utah, the oldest of four children of David Evan McMullin and Lanie Bullard.

In 1997, Evan McMullin began attending Brigham Young University ; every year he was in college he did a summer internship with the CIA.

Evan McMullin spent a year living in Israel and Jordan and volunteered as a refugee resettlement officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

In 2001, Evan McMullin graduated with a bachelor's degree in international law and diplomacy and began formal training with the CIA to become an operations officer.

Evan McMullin spent the next decade working overseas on counterterrorism and intelligence operations as an operations officer with the National Clandestine Service, operating in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.

Evan McMullin was first deployed in 2003 and left the agency in 2010.

Evan McMullin's deployments included postings in an unspecified southwest Asian country that was key to the-ongoing War on Terror.

Evan McMullin said his work involved meeting with business and government leaders, as well as collecting information from terrorist operatives.

Evan McMullin then worked for the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs for about a year and a half.

In 2013, Evan McMullin was an International Advisory Board member for the Kennedy Center for International Studies at BYU.

In 2013, Evan McMullin became a senior adviser on national security issues for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs for the 113th Congress.

Evan McMullin resigned as chief policy director shortly before declaring his run for the presidency in August 2016.

Evan McMullin had personally lobbied several Congresspeople to run under the Better for America banner, but when none would run and it was suggested to him that he should run himself, he decided to do so.

Evan McMullin ran as an independent conservative alternative to Trump, and had the support of several anti-Trump Republican donors, and his presidential bid was backed by several former members of Better for America, a 501 organization dedicated to getting nationwide ballot access for an independent candidate for president in the 2016 election.

Evan McMullin's campaign was supported by some members of the "Never Trump" movement.

In September 2016, Evan McMullin said Trump "poses a true threat to our national security by carrying Putin's water in the United States" and criticized Russian government activities to promote Trump and his allies, saying that these activities undermined the US and global economies and were destructive to peace and security.

Nationwide, Evan McMullin received 734,737 votes, in the states he was on the ballot.

On October 5,2021, Evan McMullin launched an independent campaign to unseat US Senator Mike Lee in the 2022 election.

Evan McMullin pledged, if elected, to caucus with neither the Democrats nor the Republicans.

Evan McMullin has spoken out against partisanship and extremism in politics, stating that those extremes do not accurately represent Utah or the country as a whole, and has embraced being an independent.

Evan McMullin has said that extremism is jeopardizing American government.

Evan McMullin supported NAFTA of 1994 and the original Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Evan McMullin opposes the use of torture, while supporting keeping the Guantanamo Bay detention camp open.

Evan McMullin has harshly criticized the international nuclear agreement with Iran.

Evan McMullin told ABC News that he believed Donald Trump's public comments were frustrating US counterterrorism efforts.

Evan McMullin criticized Trump's "allegiance to [Russian President] Vladimir Putin" and accused Putin of engaging in a campaign to destabilize European and North American countries "through fomenting discord between different racial groups, different ethnic groups, and different religious groups".

In 2014, Evan McMullin helped to bring Caesar, a defected Syrian military photographer who leaked 55,000 images depicting abuses by the regime, to speak before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, according to The Christian Science Monitor.

Evan McMullin clashed with State Department officials he suspected were holding up the hearing.

Evan McMullin claimed that State Department officials wanted to have a closed hearing.

Evan McMullin said that, if elected, he would vote against bills to ban abortion nationwide.

In previous statements, Evan McMullin said there was common ground between Americans who support and oppose abortion rights, criticized the divisive "never-ending tug-of-war" of the abortion debate, and noted that the number of US abortions has been declining for years.

Evan McMullin criticized immigration policy based on family reunification, taking the position that US economic policy should be based on serving the nation's economic interests by attracting the talented.

In 2016, Evan McMullin expressed support for the provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that blocks health insurance companies from denying coverage or discriminating against people with preexisting conditions.

Evan McMullin is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Evan McMullin has five stepchildren from his wife's previous marriage.