Evan McMullin sat at a conference table in his modest campaign headquarters here one morning last week, struggling to pick which high-profile Republican had most disappointed him this year.
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“Can we just say ‘all of the above’?” he asked, prompting giggles from the aides scattered throughout the room.
In McMullin’s view, the Republican Party’s wide-scale surrender to Donald Trump in 2016 had produced too many pathetic failures to rank. “I mean… some of these people said Trump was a fraud and a con man.”
At this, Mindy Finn, a former Republican consultant now serving as McMullin’s running mate, chimed in from the other side of the table: “Some of them, Trump said their father was involved in killing JFK…”
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