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2018-04-24 Home Front: Politix

Romney Loses Utah GOP Convention, Derailing Senate Coronation

[NYMAG] Months before 84-year-old Utah senator Orrin Hatch

...Republican Senator-for-Life from Utah. The state does have two senators but nobody can remember who the other guy is...
announced his retirement, polls showed Willard Mitt Romney
...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals....
easily winning the race to replace him. When Romney received Hatch’s blessing to enter the contest, and quickly secured an endorsement from President Trump, he had every reason to think that he’d sail to victory. But that’s not how things work for Willard Mitt Romney.

Romney was narrowly defeated at Saturday’s Republican state convention, receiving 49 percent of the vote to state Representative Mike Kennedy’s 51 percent. That means he’ll have to face a primary race, like some pleb who wasn’t governor of Massachusetts and the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, with a car elevator to boot.

While this is a setback, Romney is still very likely to win the Senate race in November. He’d already qualified for the June 26 primary ballot by collecting more than 28,000 signatures ‐ which Romney pointed to as the reason for his second-place finish. As the Salt Lake Tribune reports, for the past few years Utah conservatives have been fighting to overturn the law that allows signature gathering, since it weakens the power of the state convention.

"I know there were many people who were not enthusiastic about someone gathering signatures," Romney said, adding that pursuing the nomination through both signatures and the convention "was right for me. I’m glad I did it that way."

Posted by Fred 2018-04-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Perhaps he can run as a Democrat. Democrats run as Republicans all the time and then if they lose the Dem won, and if they win the Dem covertly won.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-04-24 00:36|| 2018-04-24 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 an endorsement from President Trump

I actually think Trump knew he was going to lose round 1 but endorsed him to let him know who's the big boss, the electorate.

Posted by Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-04-24 00:42|| 2018-04-24 00:42|| Front Page Top

#3 He can't even win at home.
Must have done something to piss off the temple.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-04-24 00:56|| 2018-04-24 00:56|| Front Page Top

#4 He was gov of Mass. Mormons probably dislike carpetbaggers like everyone else (except NY).

Posted by Rjschwarz 2018-04-24 07:41|| 2018-04-24 07:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Even as Governor of Mass., he gave us Romneycare, the precursor to Obamacare. Losing this race would be karma for him passing that law.

Posted by Raj 2018-04-24 09:02|| 2018-04-24 09:02|| Front Page Top

#6 McConnell's people no doubt already digging up dirt on Kennedy just in case they need to lob this one to the Democrats.

Posted by Iblis 2018-04-24 10:01|| 2018-04-24 10:01|| Front Page Top

#7 IMHO the trust factor for Romney among the Pub voters is not high.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-04-24 10:24|| 2018-04-24 10:24|| Front Page Top

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