Posted on 09/29/2022 9:42:39 AM PDT by cotton1706
Republican senators are growing concerned by colleague Mitt Romney’s refusal to help fellow Utah Republican Mike Lee decisively win his re-election campaign — a posture that could potentially keep their party from gaining a majority in the November elections. Unlike every other Republican senator, the 2012 failed Republican presidential candidate is declining to express a preference in Republican Lee’s re-election effort against Democrat-endorsed Evan McMullin.
“I respect [Romney], and I understand that each state has its own dynamics, but I do not understand why he is remaining neutral,” said one Republican senator who asked not to be identified. “Whatever our differences, we all try to support each other around election time.”
Both moderate and conservative senators confirmed the grumbling in the conference. “We should not have to be worried about Utah in any way. I don’t know what he thinks he’s doing, but it’s not going over well, particularly with the [senators] who are up for chairmanships,” said another Republican senator. Neither Lee nor Romney responded to inquiries by press time.
A new poll from Deseret News and the Hinckley Institute of Politics claims McMullin is only 2 percentage points behind Lee, with a full 16 percent of respondents unsure who they will vote for. The poll is admittedly somewhat difficult to believe, and not just because it was conducted by a pollster with a history of dramatically overstating the electoral appeal of McMullin. The group’s final 2016 poll, for example, showed McMullin losing Utah’s presidential contest by only 2 points to Donald Trump. The final result was that Trump bested McMullin, who actually came in third behind Hillary Clinton, by 25 points.
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That's not allowed, and comeuppance must be instigated.
They couldn't do it in 2016, so they're trying to do it this year, with the help of their Democrat wolf in the fold, Mitt Romney.
Willard is a globalist, depopulationist oligarch.
It’s not rocket science.
Romney is just getting in his swings before he is ousted next election.
how many people in Utah are going to vote based on what Romney does or doesn’t do?
Ping
Bennett was LDS Church royalty. Mike Lee taking him out was deeply threatening to Mormon power in Utah.
It after all this time with Romney’s hijinks they are baffled they are clueless.
“Bennett was LDS Church royalty. Mike Lee taking him out was deeply threatening to Mormon power in Utah.”
I didn’t know anything about that angle.
What’s got his magic undies in a bunch?................
Mitt Romney is an enemy of anyone who’s even slightly conservative, in fact he’s to the left of a lot of democrats. It’s amazing that Utah’s dumb enough to elect him.
Imagine what shape we’d be in if Mittens had been elected in 2012. At least with a radical dem in place, there is a plausible opposition by the Republicans. With a radical leftist Republican, their guard would have been down.
They wont need to oust him, he wont run for reelection.
I would not be at all surprised if Romney does not make a run for president as a Dem or Ind.
I could easily see a Romney/ Cheney Dem/ ind ticket
Utah voters revealed themselves to be among the dumbest in the land when they decided to give one of their two seats in the U.S. Senate to Massachusetts.
“It’s not rocket science”
You got that right.....Pierre delecto isn’t a republican...hell he’s not even a rino.
He’s a straight up democrat mole......just like mccain, mcconnell and graham.
Mike Lee has destroyed thousands of tech jobs.
My hero Robert Dornan walked with MLK in those civil rights marches in the 60’s. He won his Air Force uniform-captain. Mittens chose to much with BLM as if their cause was the same.
BTW-I do believe Lee is a Mormon. The good news is the Filipio Atty. General’s running for Romney’s seat.
It’s funny. The Romney name is royalty in Michigan. Couldn’t this turnaround specialist turn Detroit around? Too vindictive.
You think Egg McMuffin would be an improvement?
I see John McKain’s cancer continues to metastasize. Can we trade Romney to the WNBA for a player to be named when they can draw 10,000 fans a game?
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