Utah GOP Sen. Mitt Romney, former presidential candidate and governor, won't seek reelection in 2024
Utah GOP Sen. Mitt Romney, former presidential candidate and governor, won't seek reelection in 2024
Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney will not run for reelection in 2024. The former presidential candidate and Massachusetts governor announced his intentions in a video statement Wednesday, creating a wide-open contest in a state that heavily favors Republicans and is expected to attract a crowded fie
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Eh, I’m not so sure about that. He correctly predicted that Russia was our largest geopolitical enemy (which Obama laughed at), and he also staunchly opposed Trump (being the only party member to vote to convict him). The ACA is also based on a plan that he created as Governor of Massachusetts. I think his track record shows him as a fairly different sort of Republican than whatever the hell is going on there today.
But yeah, his policy is terrible like the rest of the GOP. No argument from me there.
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Lawful evil concedes, chaotic evil prevails.
I think yall are getting cause and effect mixed up. He would be 83 at the end of his next term and he's worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He can walk off into the sunset and enjoy his riches for a few years, and he was probably always going to do that.
Knowing he didn't need to run for re-election, he was able to vote his conscience during the Trump Administration.
So, he was reasonable because he was retiring, he's not retiring because he's too reasonable.
He could easily get re-elected now even after voting conscientiously. His retiring has nothing to do with going against Trump / fascist GOP.
Romney in 2020 became the first senator in U.S. history to vote to convict a president from their own party in an impeachment trial. Romney was the only Republican to vote against Trump in his first impeachment and one of seven to vote to convict him in the second. ...
Romney was booed by a gathering of the Utah Republican Party’s most active members months after his vote at the second impeachment trial, and a measure to censure him narrowly failed. Members of the party even flung the term “Mitt Romney Republican” at their opponents on the campaign trail in 2022’s midterm elections.
Still, Romney has been seen as broadly popular in Utah, which has long harbored a band of the party that’s favored civil conservatism and resisted Trump’s brash and norm-busting style of politics.Seems like he's in the wrong party. There's no room for actual conservatives or upholding the law against their own in the modern pro-fascism, post-truth, anti-democracy, GOP.
He wouldn't have made it through a primary. Given it's Utah he'll be replaced by someone much worse.
Why do you think that? He's staunchly Mormon, and been a political figure head for their interests. I can't see them turning their back on him.
Seems like he’s in the wrong party. There’s no room for actual conservatives or upholding the law against their own in the modern pro-fascism, post-truth, anti-democracy, GOP.
Well he sure af isn't welcome to the Democratic party.
Of which he's been along for the ride the whole time.
Well, you know...money, amirite?
there’s no room for actual conservatives
I’m not sure what you mean. What do you think it means to be a conservative?
I’m not sure what you mean. What do you think it means to be a conservative?
In this context I'm referring to what the American right historically purports to be and not what it arguably is; small government, pro-business, law and order, supports traditional American values like democracy, pro-religion, in opposition robust social programs. This seems to be in line with Mitt Romney's version of conservatism, as opposed to the GOP's more recent openly fascist and antidemocratic behaviors. I could see potential for him as a Manchin-like Democrat who leans hard right, if he were so inclined and his voters approved.
I guess it's time to go home and watch the Great Salt Lake disappear while claiming humans aren't capable of changing god's climate.
Remember when "binders full of women" was enough of a gaffe to sink a presidential run? Man, do I miss those days.
Or a “hiyaaaa!”
Yo Mittens, Obama was born in Hawaii. You have been part of the problem. Let us all not forget this.
Oh great, cue the criticism of the GOP from another EX-congress member
Sounds like someone's planning to write a tell-all!
Back when we were all conspiring to take rights away from women and minorities, some of the tactics we used were unsavory
Going out by saying 'enough of the boomers, give someone else a shot' is nice. We'll see who the Mormons pick to replace him.
Introducing... Matt Romney. Same policies, same lack of personality, same ability to fill a suit. But now slightly younger!
"second verse
Same as the first
A little bit louder and a little bit worse"
Headline should read "Mitt Romney Cashes Out" first line should read "During his x year senate career Romney's net worth increased by ..."
Never thought there would be a time where he would be more reasonable than most Republicans. The replacement will be more extreme than him.
I don't like Mitt at all, but almost guaranteed that whoever takes the seat will be much less reasonable and more right wing than Romney. We're more likely to get another Mike Lee than a Jon Huntsman.
They found the photos
Even this asshole has given up. He has enough wealth to at least live through the societal collapse for a few years maybe.
I don't like Mitt at all, but almost guaranteed that whoever takes the seat will be much less reasonable and more right wing than Romney. We're more likely to get another Mike Lee than a Jon Huntsman.
Never fear, they've got someone far worse to replace him with.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Romney was booed by a gathering of the Utah Republican Party’s most active members months after his vote at the second impeachment trial, and a measure to censure him narrowly failed.
Still, Romney has been seen as broadly popular in Utah, which has long harbored a band of the party that’s favored civil conservatism and resisted Trump’s brash and norm-busting style of politics.
The faith arrived in the western state with pioneers fleeing religious persecution and spread globally with the religion’s missionaries, a legacy that’s left the church’s conservative members embracing immigrants and refugees.
Romney, a Brigham Young University graduate and one of the faith’s most visible members after his 2012 presidential campaign, had been a popular figure in the state for two decades.
The image crystallized with his comment, secretly recorded at a fundraiser, that he didn’t worry about winning the votes of “47% of Americans” who “believe they are victims” and “pay no income tax.”
Romney accepted Trump’s endorsement during the primary race for his 2018 Senate run but also pledged in an op-ed that year that he would “continue to speak out when the president says or does something which is divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or destructive to democratic institutions.”
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