Morning Digest: Allies pour in $1 million for Mike Lee despite his own poll giving him a wide lead

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● UT-Sen: Republican Sen. Mike Lee is pushing back against a poll from his chief rival, conservative independent Evan McMullin, that shows their November matchup deadlocked by releasing numbers of his own that show him with a dominant lead. But there are some serious issues that should have you questioning Lee's take: Not only is his poll more than a month old, the outside groups supporting him aren't behaving like he's got the race locked down.

Lee's survey, from GOP pollster WPA Intelligence, puts the senator up by a 50-32 margin, with 6% saying they'd vote for another candidate and 12% undecided. By contrast, McMullin's poll, which was conducted by the Democratic firm Impact Research, had Lee ahead just 47-46. But while McMullin's poll was fielded from Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, Lee's was taken on Aug. 4 and 5.