People forget, or never figured out, that Mitt thought that he was building a national power base in California.
Being totally incompetent in politics, as he has demonstrated for decades of running for office, and his leaving the GOP because of Reagan in 1979, and becoming a supporter of democrats, and a democrat fundraiser and voter, his plans for his California base didn’t succeed.
Romney bought a home in California, intending to move there after placing Meg Whitman in the governor’s office.
As usual the man was an idiot, she spent a vast fortune going nowhere, and now Mitt is trying to sell the California house, and move, not back to Massachusetts, but to Utah.
2013 “Mitt Romney Buys Massive Park City, Utah Mansion”
2015 “A broker is now showing the La Jolla home to potential buyers, a Romney aide told the Globe.”
2014 “It turns out Romney, who is moving to Utah as a full-time resident, strolled into a driver license office in late August to obtain his Utah license and filled out paperwork to register to vote at his under-construction home in Holladay, a suburb of Salt Lake City.”
Why do you think Willard was breaking his neck to get the GOP to have their convention in Utah ???