Posted on 09/09/2022 7:26:58 AM PDT by Jim Noble
On the night of the 2018 midterm elections, as a wave of anti-Trump sentiment swept Democrats to take control of the House, top Republican Mitt Romney urged Joe Biden to run for president.
“You have to run,” said Romney, the Republican presidential nominee Biden and Barack Obama defeated in 2012, speaking to the former vice-president by phone.
The same night, Romney was elected a US senator from Utah, a post from which he would twice vote to convict Donald Trump in impeachment trials.
Romney’s exhortation to a man then seen as a likely challenger to Donald Trump in 2020 will probably further enrage the former president, his supporters and the Republican party they dominate...
The Biden-Romney call is described in The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama, a book by Gabriel Debenedetti that will be published next week. The Guardian obtained a copy...
In a note on sourcing, Debenedetti says his book is “primarily the product of hundreds of interviews” with “colleagues, aides, rivals, confidants, allies and eyewitnesses from every stage” of Obama and Biden’s careers since 2003...
He also says: “When someone’s words are rendered in italics, that indicates an approximation based on the memories of sources who did not recall exact wordings...”
Romney’s opposition to Trump is long established, if not entirely consistent...
In 2016, the former Massachusetts governor spoke out against Trump, decrying his behaviour on the campaign trail and calling him a “phony” and a “fraud”. After the election, he said he did not vote for the Republican nominee, writing in his wife’s name instead...
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Jeb! would get more votes.
What kind of people want a pompous, self-righteous Senator that hides behind the name Pierre Delecto
What a POS Romney is. I am ashamed to say I actually voted for him although the alternative was demonstrably worse.
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The Queen wasn’t announced dead yet, and Mitch McConnell had made a statement on her life.
When the Republicans don’t rebut Barr and Strzok and Cheney - they want Trump attacked. They want the allegations to stand.
Common sense.
So this vile imbecile loses in 2012 to Obama and BIDEN(!) and then asks him to run against the sitting Rep. President as he gives his Utah Rep. Senator victory speech!!?? What a sick, evil, loser with zero integrity.
It seems now that they are interchangeable.
What is the Mormon agenda?
Bush said similar to Biden/Cummings
These traitors are beyond shameful I will look forward to their ultimate day of reckoning
You needed proof? They are all the same which is why I don’t much care I’d the Repukes take the Senate. I just want thr Senators to be voted out at every chance and rebuild it
No doubt in my mind. Ronmey is a snake.
What a TRAITOR this guy turned out to be.
He begged President Donald J Trump for his endorsement then STABBED HIM IN THE BACK.
UTAH VOTE HIM OUT.
This scumbag will run again in 2024.
He and Liz Cheney.
They believe they have to save the world from Trump.
Dear Mormons.....WAKE THE HELL UP!!
Romney Christy one in the same
twins separated at birth
I despise them both
Totally in keeping with the backstabber Romney. Combine a scummy lawyer, a sleazy car dealer, an underhanded contractor, and you have someone more honorable than Romney.
Term limits!
Mitt is thinking he will get the VP spot on Biden’s ticket. Why? Because they need someone handsome to offset the hansom Gavin Nusome challenge. All goons think this way.
It’s more than obvious that the Romney Family is as corrupt and evil as is the Biden Family. What are you going to do it Utah?
Let’s not forget that Trump endorsed that liberal Morman POS.
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