{"id":1385084,"date":"2022-03-16T19:21:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T23:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1385084"},"modified":"2022-03-16T19:21:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T23:21:30","slug":"mitt-romney-will-likely-face-utahs-maga-attorney-general-in-gop-senate-primary-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitt-romney-will-likely-face-utahs-maga-attorney-general-in-gop-senate-primary-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney Will Likely Face Utah&#039;s MAGA\u00a0Attorney General in GOP Senate Primary in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmitt-romney-will-likely-face-utahs-maga-attorney-general-in-gop-senate-primary-in-2024%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1385084&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) is likely to face\u00a0Utah\u2019s Attorney General Sean Reyes in the Republican primary, <em>Politico<\/em> reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Reyes, who is hugely supportive of Donald Trump\u2019s America First agenda, may\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/16\/trump-ally-sean-reyes-mitt-romney-primary-00017741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mount<\/a>\u00a0a challenge to Romney in 2024. The race could potentially coincide with Trump\u2019s reelection campaign, offering a substantial opportunity for Reyes to oust Romney.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Reyes will reportedly determine in May whether he will challenge Romney. Trump has reportedly\u00a0urged Reyes to displace Romney in the Senate.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14970597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2020\/11\/GettyImages-1269205162.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General of Utah Sean Reyes arrives onstage to pre-record his address to the Republican National Convention on August 27, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">\u201cI guarantee Trump will come up with somebody,\u201d Chair of the Utah Republican Party\u00a0Carson Jorgensen told <em>Politico<\/em>. \u201cThere\u2019s enough vitriol there that no matter if Trump is running for president, he will run a candidate against Romney.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">Seventy-five-year-old Romney has not publicly disclosed his intentions for 2024. Reports indicate Romney may retire and not compete against the MAGA candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">\u201cThere isn\u2019t a Republican candidate in the country who isn\u2019t seeking the support of President Trump,\u201d Trump\u2019s spokesman Taylor Budowich told <em>Politico<\/em>. \u201cMitt Romney will be replaced in 2024 by a champion for America First, that goes without question \u2014 he abandoned Utah and caved to the Radical Left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">Similar to Romney, Reyes is a Latter-day Saint. But unlike Romney, he is a second generation America with a Filipino-Spanish-Japanese heritage. If Reyes does challenge Romney, Reyes may use his family\u2019s immigrant background to promote border security, a top issue among Republicans and one that Romney has ignored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">Reyes has served as attorney general for nearly a decade. Known to be <a href=\"https:\/\/attorneygeneral.utah.gov\/meet-sean\/\">tough<\/a> against\u00a0drug dealers,\u00a0human traffickers, child predators, and\u00a0white-collar criminals,\u00a0Reyes was selected in 2015 by the Republican National Committee as one of the party\u2019s four national rising stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">Reyes is married and has six children. He enjoys \u201cshooting guns and rapping on Bloomberg News,\u201d according to his Utah state bio.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/gettr.com\/user\/wendellhusebo\">Gettr<\/a>\u00a0@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) is likely to face\u00a0Utah\u2019s Attorney General Sean Reyes in the Republican primary, Politico reported Wednesday. 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