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Mitt Romney Concedes Trump's 'Hold' Over GOP Base 'Unlikely to Be Swayed by Almost Anything'
newsweek ^ | 05/27/2021 | Jason Lemon

Posted on 05/27/2021 1:31:10 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Senator Mitt Romney conceded that former President Donald Trump's "hold" over the GOP is "unlikely to be swayed" despite an ongoing grand jury investigation in New York that could lead to criminal charges against the former commander in chief.

Prosecutors in New York have convened a grand jury as part of a criminal investigation into Trump and his business practices, The Washington Post first reported this week. Although Trump and his business—the Trump Organization—have been under investigation for some time, legal experts have said the convening of a grand jury demonstrates the seriousness of the charges being considered. But Romney and other Republicans are skeptical that the investigation or any possible charges will have much influence on GOP voters.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Utah; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: backstabber; base; binders; gop; gopestablishment; magicunderwear; mittens; nevertrumpers; pierredefecto; pierredelecto; pierrerejecto; rino; rinos; rmoney; romney; tds; trump; uniparty; willard
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He likes to hear himself talk.
1 posted on 05/27/2021 1:31:10 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is a price to be paid for lying all your life. Romney is figuring out that he has to pay it.


2 posted on 05/27/2021 1:32:57 PM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

—> Senator Mitt Romney conceded that

Trans Republican Senator Mitt Romney conceded that …


3 posted on 05/27/2021 1:33:57 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (“Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

‘Unlikely to Be Swayed by Almost Anything’

Romney you idiot! How about trying to sway them with the truth instead of your constant stream of lies? But then you realize that the truth would actually make his supporters back Trump more.


4 posted on 05/27/2021 1:34:41 PM PDT by BushCountry (thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What fools like Romney, Ryan, and Cheney don’t understand is it’s the policies that Trump supports combined with his personality that makes people loyal to Trump which was sealed when he actually did the unthinkable and acted on his policies instead of paying lip service to them...


5 posted on 05/27/2021 1:36:39 PM PDT by srmanuel (`)
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To: BushCountry

People of Utah should be ashamed of themselves for voting this anti-American carpetbagger as their senator.


6 posted on 05/27/2021 1:36:43 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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Trump doesn't have a 'hold' on the base. Trump is in harmony with the base. That's a detail that escapes people like Romney.

There's a premise that Republican voters were hypnotized by Trump's showmanship and charisma and essentially brainwashed. In fact, Trump's popularity took off because he was the first GOP politician in a generation or more who said EXACTLY what most rank-in-file GOP voters had been thinking for years. They enthusiastically supported Trump while they held their noses to pull the lever for Romney and McCain...and Romney still doesn't get it.

7 posted on 05/27/2021 1:37:00 PM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Prosecutors would have to prove
beyond a reasonable doubt” that Trump willfully and knowingly took part in some kind of scheme to defraud the govt.

Sorry lefties, not a chance of this happening.


8 posted on 05/27/2021 1:37:03 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Alt headline -

Mitt Romney realizes he’s a nobody.


9 posted on 05/27/2021 1:37:10 PM PDT by Eddie01
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10 posted on 05/27/2021 1:38:43 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: ScubaDiver

All the right people hate Trump. It’s like a giant neon sign that he is a good guy.


11 posted on 05/27/2021 1:39:40 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Tag line for rent)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This grand jury is another witch hunt. Just like all the other grand juries that they convened for Russia and other nonsense.


12 posted on 05/27/2021 1:40:53 PM PDT by outpostinmass2 (Y)
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Trump does not have "a hold" on us. We do NOT consider Trump infallible. We feel free to disagree with Trump when we think he is wrong.

What happened is this. Most of us recognize that Trump loved America and was for it rather than against it. And he resisted bowing the knee to the various pressure groups that push corruption and absurdities. We saw how this enraged the corruption machine...and we saw Trump take the abuse and hatred and wrath of that machine on our behalf.

Did he take the abuse gracefully? No. Does sun shine come out of his backside? No. Is everything he thinks always completely right? No.

But he wasn't corrupt. And the elite arrogant corrupt swamp came after him with everything you had with hatred in their eyes. Lying and slandering us all and encouraging persecution of anybody who supported him.

So no, its not about Trump having a "hold on us". Its about the lying slandering Left and its few corrupt arrogant allies in the Republican establishment that enrage us.

Persecuting Trump even more, is not going to cause that disgust and well earned contempt to go away.

13 posted on 05/27/2021 1:41:39 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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Uh oh. It’s the “seriousness of the charges” again.


14 posted on 05/27/2021 1:42:12 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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To: SamAdams76

“People of Utah should be ashamed of themselves for voting this anti-American carpetbagger as their senator.”

Trump campaigned for Mitt or he’d have lost and we would have had another Dem Senator. Now we have a Dem Senator Lite.


15 posted on 05/27/2021 1:42:29 PM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh yeah it could Mittens.

All you and Paul have to do is stand up and fight for America and Constitution and not the communists.

It’s not difficult at all but you support globalists and totalitarians over your own people.


16 posted on 05/27/2021 1:42:34 PM PDT by Skywise
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“ Trump doesn’t have a ‘hold’ on the base. Trump is in harmony with the base. That’s a detail that escapes people like Romney.”

You are correct, Mr.Scubadiver


17 posted on 05/27/2021 1:43:00 PM PDT by stanne
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You know his father WAS governor of Michigan. So there’s that.


18 posted on 05/27/2021 1:43:29 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’d like to see Romney sway.


19 posted on 05/27/2021 1:44:10 PM PDT by SIDENET (ISAIAH 5:20)
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To: ScubaDiver

You’re exactly right.

Trump isn’t holding the party hostage. He doesn’t have any more of a hold on the party than you or me.

Donald Trump told you exactly how he thought and his base agrees.

On the other hand, Romney ran for President as a conservative. NO real conservative would choose Clinton or Biden over Trump.


20 posted on 05/27/2021 1:44:16 PM PDT by Tai_Chung
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