Mitt Romney will be replaced by a guy who sure sounds a lot like Mitt Romney. Republican Rep. John Curtis, who has occasionally bucked former President Donald Trump, won a crowded GOP primary on Tuesday for Romney’s Utah Senate seat. He beat Trent Staggs, a MAGA candidate with Trump’s blessing, to secure a win for […]
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Here’s Who Will Likely Succeed Mitt Romney In The Senate Next Year
Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah) won the Utah Senate GOP primary on Tuesday, making him the odds-all-favorite to succeed retiring Sen. Mitt Romney next year. Curtis, a three-term congressman and former mayor of Provo, Utah, defeated three other candidates, including Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs, who was backed by former President Donald Trump. Staggs touted his Trump […]
Sen. Mitt Romney criticizes Bragg, Democrats over Trump trial
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg should have settled the case against former president Donald Trump, but instead made a “political decision” to move forward with a trial. Romney called Democrats’ actions “political malpractice.” Trump was found guilty in a Manhattan court of falsifying business records after labeling payments to an […]
Sen. Mitt Romney wants more oversight for federal employees who work from home
Should there be more oversight of federal employees working from home? That was a question Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, had for the U.S.comptroller general and head of the Government Accountability Office, Eugene Dodaro, during a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security’s Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight Subcommittee. Romney, who last week proposed a bill that […]
Biden should have pardoned Trump on federal charges, Mitt Romney says
Joe Biden should have pardoned Donald Trump on all federal criminal charges the moment they were announced, the Utah senator and former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said. Related: Joe Biden and Donald Trump agree to two US presidential debates “Had I been President Biden,” Romney said, “when the justice department brought out indictments, I […]
GOP Sen. Mitt Romney says Biden should have pardoned Trump
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, argued that President Joe Biden should have pardoned Donald Trump after the Justice Department brought indictments against the former president and pressured New York prosecutors not to pursue Trump’s ongoing hush money trial. In an exclusive interview on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle,” Romney expressed his dismay in response […]
Mitt Romney Reveals Twisted Reason Why Congress Moved to Ban TikTok
Utah Senator Mitt Romney revealed the motivation for the bipartisan consensus to ban TikTok, and it has little to do with protecting users’ data. Speaking at the McCain Institute on Friday alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Romney lamented Israel’s inability to control the flow of information out of and about Gaza, despite its best […]
Mitt Romney praises Kyrsten Sinema, explains why he thinks she became ‘toxic’ to Democrats
Sen. Mitt Romney had high praise for his colleague Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, crediting her with bringing senators together from both major parties to pass legislation, and for standing up for the filibuster at a time when she was pressured to change the Senate rules to see it eliminated. Sinema, an independent from Arizona, was elected […]
Mitt Romney says there’s no comparison between his past dog controversy and South Dakota governor shooting her puppy
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said there’s no comparison between South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem killing her “less than worthless” puppy and the controversy over the Romney family dog being carried in a kennel strapped atop a car on a road trip. “I didn’t eat my dog. I didn’t shoot my dog. I loved my dog, […]
Mitt Romney Resents Being Compared To Kristi Noem
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) slammed South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) for shooting her dog and rejected comparisons to his own canine controversy during the 2012 presidential campaign. “I guess it kind of makes it a little difficult for President Trump to find someone to be his [vice president]. He has to look […]
Utah GOP picks Trump-backed mayor as nominee to replace Mitt Romney
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Republican Party on Saturday selected Trent Staggs as its nominee to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S. Senate, hours after the local official received former President Donald Trump’s endorsement. While the endorsement carried Staggs through convention with more than two-thirds of delegate votes, that support may not translate to […]
Mitt Romney says Alejandro Mayorkas’s actions do not merit impeachment
Alejandro Mayorkas is not guilty of a high crime or misdemeanour, the Republican senator Mitt Romney said, making clear he will not vote to remove the US homeland security secretary from office if his impeachment goes to a trial. Related: Mayorkas impeachment: petty, doomed … but still potentially damaging “Secretary Mayorkas is following the position […]