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Mitt Romney fails to secure Utah GOP nomination, will face primary
CNN ^ | April 21, 2018 | Maeve Reston

Posted on 04/21/2018 7:36:11 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Mitt Romney did not win the Utah Republican Party's nomination on Saturday, meaning he must compete in a June primary election as he seeks to replace retiring US Sen. Orrin Hatch.

After a wild and raucous day of voting at the Utah GOP convention, the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee was unable to win the 60% that he needed to head to the November ballot unopposed. When none of the 12 candidates were able to cross that threshold, the party continued with successive rounds of caucus voting until one candidate reached 40%.

On the second round of voting, Utah state representative Mike Kennedy emerged in the lead with 50.88%. Romney came in a close second with 49.12%.

Romney and Kennedy will now compete in a primary set for June 26.

After the vote, Romney said he was looking forward to a primary race. "This is terrific for the people of Utah, and I really want to thank the delegates who stayed so late to give me the kind of boost that I got here today," Romney said, standing on the convention floor after the proceedings were adjourned. "We're going to have a good primary.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; gop; gope; gopprimary; localnews; luggagerackdog; maga; mikekennedy; miltromley; mittens; mittromney; rino; rinoromney; romney; romney2018; uniparty; ut2018; utah; winning
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To: Blue Highway

Well, your spelling sucks no e at the end of Massachusetts.. or massive two shits.
We all loathe his being and he has no ties here.
Mitt is a Loozah.
The End


81 posted on 04/21/2018 9:48:06 PM PDT by acapesket (all happy now?)
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To: Republican Wildcat
I really never understood the logic of why they brushed aside his son - who is actually from Utah and obviously more youthful - in favor of the former Governor of Massachusetts.

Romney is a politician therefore his ego is so big he would sell his Mother down the road, in this case his son, to gain office.

Out Country is now infested with career politicians, which our Founding Fathers not only warned us about but tried to craft a system that would inhibit them. People who gravitate towards politics are the exact people who we MUST keep out of politics.

82 posted on 04/21/2018 9:48:46 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: vette6387

But, is THIS Kennedy an actual conservative, or is he, also, a RINO?


83 posted on 04/21/2018 9:52:37 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: EdnaMode

84 posted on 04/21/2018 10:02:22 PM PDT by wastedyears (Americans are dreamers too.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

You nailed it.


85 posted on 04/21/2018 10:08:38 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: EdnaMode

Romney coasted to the presidency before Hillary did. Go away mutt.


86 posted on 04/21/2018 10:16:08 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: EdnaMode

The choke artist choked again.


87 posted on 04/21/2018 10:36:21 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Vigilanteman

LOL!

Perfect!


88 posted on 04/21/2018 10:47:20 PM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: EdnaMode

McCoy to Captain Kirk:

“He is dead, Jim.”


89 posted on 04/21/2018 11:16:36 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: EdnaMode

McCoy to Captain Kirk:

“He is dead, Jim.”


90 posted on 04/21/2018 11:22:18 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Moonman62

Romney losing the primary would be his last Harrah!

He’s always been a snake as far as I can see. Time to retire Mittens.....


91 posted on 04/21/2018 11:24:40 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry Bear formily known as Ursus Arctos Horrilibis (or U.A. Californicus))
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To: EdnaMode

His main planks are amnesty, caving in to homosexual demands and hating President Trump.


92 posted on 04/21/2018 11:28:37 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: vette6387
So he’s [Kennedy's] a practicing doctor with a law degree.

Runner-up Mittens is a non-practicing lawyer with a business degree.

93 posted on 04/22/2018 12:00:08 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: johnthebaptistmoore
But, is THIS Kennedy an actual conservative, or is he, also, a RINO?

He talks a good story. He claims to be a small-government, Washington outsider:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lUxwmmsAEQ

94 posted on 04/22/2018 12:07:04 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: EdnaMode
Yes indeed. Hebrhehehehrhehe. While Romney was never my choice, I worked very hard to get him elected once he was nominated in 2012. What did he do? Fold his tent ⛺️ and give our White House to the sorozNazi illegal immigrant for another 4 destructive years. And Romney’s awful ( snide, insulting) remarks about president Trump have been disgusting. Another McShame or Hilliary in disguise? I hope and pray the good people of Utah elect a Much better person! Please ..
95 posted on 04/22/2018 12:32:40 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: EdnaMode

Wut!?

He can’t even take UTAH? That was supposed to be a trip to the moon on gossamer wings.

More schadenfreude.


96 posted on 04/22/2018 1:03:44 AM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

He had ample opportunity in 2012. He didn’t want to win. Like I said, Deep Staters like him ONLY go nuclear against Conservatives. If he had fought half as hard as he did to get a total left-leaning, unaccomplished cypher like Kerry Healey the Lt Gov nomination in 2002 over an accomplished party activist in Jim Rappaport, he could’ve bounced the jug-eared jackass from the Presidency.

Say it with me now:

He.
Didn’t.
Want.
To.


97 posted on 04/22/2018 1:04:09 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Republican Wildcat

Hawley is down 4 below McCaskill in a new poll. I don’t feel 100% confident in that seat, but I know we’ll win Utah. That’s why I wish it was a solid conservative - not Romney. Romney said he doesn’t even know if he’ll endorse Trump in 2020 yet! I don’t know about this guy, though, is he another Never Trump guy?


98 posted on 04/22/2018 1:04:54 AM PDT by Pinkbell
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To: EdnaMode

I hope the voters in Utah have the good sense to defeat Mitt Romney in their upcoming Republican Senate Primary. Mitt Romney will be poison for Utah, he will become just another “Never Trumper” like Jeff Flake, Bob Corker, Ben Sasse and worst of all, John McCain.

McCain, now dying, the “Never Trumper” of all “Never Trumpers” does not have one ounce of decency and respect for the citizens and voters of Arizona, for he is unfit to continue as an operating Senator, because he is too sick & ill to be in Washington, DC where he is required to be, if he wants his vote to count & mean anything. His month after month absence denies the voters of Arizona a Senator, for McCain has no voice or meaning whatsoever.

Elect Mitt Romney, Utah, and you will have elected an extreme, hateful, envious, elitist RINO establishment low life, just like John McCain, to represent the great state of UTAH. The choice is in your hands!!! “Defeat Mitt Romney”. Support POTUS, Donald J. Trump and MAGA!!!


99 posted on 04/22/2018 1:07:28 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Blue Highway

I was living there under this aholes tenure at the time . The damage left behind from “Masscare” alone has reaked such fiscal havock and set the framework for the bama/sotoreo boondoggle called APPCA . As much as I hate the braindead electorate body in the state where I was raised , I still have a tad of empathy left so as even I would not wish the ass Romney back upon them .


100 posted on 04/22/2018 1:42:54 AM PDT by mythenjoseph
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