{"id":1464847,"date":"2022-05-05T10:15:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1464847"},"modified":"2022-05-05T10:15:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:15:21","slug":"romney-on-trump-if-he-decides-to-run-he-will-be-the-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/romney-on-trump-if-he-decides-to-run-he-will-be-the-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney On Trump: \u2018If He Decides To Run, He Will Be The Nominee\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fromney-on-trump-if-he-decides-to-run-he-will-be-the-nominee%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=1464847&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/romney.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) isn\u2019t exactly beloved within the Republican Party, having twice voted to convict former President Donald Trump after his impeachments.<\/p>\n<p>But the 75-year-old lawmaker is a realist. After two dozen Trump-backed candidates pulled out victories on Republican primaries on Tuesday, Romney said the former president is poised for a 2024 re-run \u2014 which he could win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to imagine anything that would derail his support,\u201d Romney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/05\/05\/mitt-romney-donald-trump-gop-nominee-2024\">told<\/a> Axios. \u201cSo if he wants to become the nominee in \u201924, I think he\u2019s very likely to achieve that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Romney also made a frank admission. \u201cI don\u2019t delude myself into thinking I have a big swath of the Republican Party,\u201d he said. And he admitted that Trump\u2019s power remains strong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s the leader of the party, that\u2019s clear \u2026 If he decides to run, he will be the nominee,\u201d Romney added.<\/p>\n<p>The Utah senator has been persona non grata in the party since his votes against Trump, prompting him to take evasive action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublican Sen. Mitt Romney reportedly likes to go incognito while in Palm Beach, Florida,\u201d Business Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mitt-romney-avoids-donald-trump-supporters-by-wearing-hats-2022-4\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cThe Utah conservative has been wearing hats while dining out in the wealthy oceanside enclave, where he has a vacation home, in an effort to disguise himself, a family friend told the authors of the new book \u2018This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America\u2019s Future.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he were recognized by Trump supporters there, there was a good chance he would be harassed,\u201d New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns wrote. For the record, Trump\u2019s home at the Mar-a-Lago resort is also in Palm Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Romney might have good reason to go incognito. The day before the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, Trump supporters harangued Romney as he awaited a flight to D.C. at the Salt Lake City International Airport. A viral video released at the time showed an angry woman calling him an \u201cabsolute joke\u201d and other passengers on the plane chanted \u201ctraitor\u201d at the senator.<\/p>\n<p>The Mormon senator twice bucked the party to oppose Trump, whom he called in the 2016 Republican presidential campaign a \u201cphony.\u201d\u00a0In February 2020, Romney joined every Democrat in the Senate to vote for removing Trump from office for what he said was an \u201cappalling abuse of public trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Less than a year later, Romney was among seven Republican senators who voted to convict\u00a0Trump in his impeachment trial in connection with the Capitol riot, although the president was eventually acquitted by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) isn\u2019t exactly beloved within the Republican Party, having twice voted to convict former President Donald Trump after his impeachments.But the 75-year-old lawmaker is a realist. 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