Posted on 05/21/2018 6:08:21 PM PDT by Trump20162020
If, as expected, Mitt Romney wins his race for a Senate seat from Utah he may become the most powerful man in the United States Senate. As many of us remember, Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, ran for president in 2012 and lost to Barack Obama. It wasn’t one of those totally humiliating losses—the map did not turn blue—but we assumed Mitt Romney would fade into history.
Well, maybe not.
The seat will remain Republican-held for President Trump come January of 2019, but this one could very well turn out to be the swing vote in the Senate. If Democrats pick up one seat, not two, the Senate will be tied and Trump will have to continue to rely on Vice President Pence to cast tie-breaking votes, unless other Republicans defect. In that scenario Romney, a frequent critic of President Trump’s, could easily upset the balance of power.
The reason? Republican Senator Romney will have what no other Republican Senator currently has, a Republican constituency that does not like President Trump. Trump came in third in the Republican primary in Utah in 2016 and in the general election a large number of voters voted for the independent and Mormon conservative Evan McMullin, rather than pull the lever for Trump or Hillary. For comparison, in 2016 Donald Trump won about 45 percent of the general election vote in Utah; in 2012, Romney won about 73 percent of the presidential vote there. Mormon voters, who make up the majority of voters in Utah, are perhaps the only conservative religious bloc in the country who are bothered by President Trump’s many infidelities and dubious business practices—Trump’s approval among Mormons trails behind white evangelicals by 14 points.
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Every Utah voter should stop and think about the disaster that Mitt would be in the Senate and save their vote for Dr.Kennedy, a true conservative. Mitt is no Pubbie, or a conservative. He is a mis-identified RAT at heart and a RINO for sure.
Those are wide sweeping conjectures with no facts to back them up. Most Utahns want border control and the deportment of un-wanted illegals
Mittens Romney is guilty of money laundering. Time for him to face a Jury.
IIRC, there is a replica of the Oval Office, right down to the secret wall panels, somewhere under Moscow, dating to the Reagan era.
IMHO that actually makes more sense than GB having one.
In the sense that it sounds like something you’d expect them to do. I hope we have something similar.
Rumor has it they used theirs with remote viewing, to know what Reagan was doing.
Figures, LOL.
“O.K. Ivan, he’s now eating Jelly Belly candy....”
More than likely Romney will take over John McCain’s role as chief P-I-T-A on the GOP side of the aisle. The guy most likely to flip & vote with the Democrats.
I will never, ever vote for this person. I don’t care who he is running against, or how much people scream that he’s not as evil as the other guy.
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