{"id":1936613,"date":"2023-05-24T01:55:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T05:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-launches-bid-for-us-senate-seat-held-by-sen-mitt-romney\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T01:57:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T05:57:58","slug":"republican-launches-bid-for-us-senate-seat-held-by-sen-mitt-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-launches-bid-for-us-senate-seat-held-by-sen-mitt-romney\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP candidate runs for Senate seat currently held by Sen. Mitt Romney."},"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\">24<\/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%2Frepublican-launches-bid-for-us-senate-seat-held-by-sen-mitt-romney%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=1936613&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--><blockquote>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0523\/232a72cf-ac53-4294-afc1-53425c10682a\/audio.mp3?length=4145805&#038;duration=345\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Utah Mayor Trent Staggs Launches Bid for Senate Seat Held by Mitt Romney<\/h2>\n<p>Are you tired of Washington politics? So is Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs. That&#8217;s why he&#8217;s launching a bid for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah). In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-lieutenant-governor-to-run-for-senate-seat-being-vacated-by-gops-toomey\/\" title=\"Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor to Run for Senate Seat Being Vacated by GOP\u2019s Toomey\">announcement video<\/a>, Staggs criticized Romney for his positions and vowed to represent Utah in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Staggs is the first major Republican to launch a campaign for the Senate seat in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-skips-fact-checking-to-run-with-nurses-unverified-story-about-covid-patients-last-dying-words\/\" title=\"CNN Skips Fact-Checking To Run With Nurse's Unverified Story About COVID Patients 'Last Dying Words'\">red state<\/a>. Romney has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-launches-bid-for-us-senate-seat-held-by-sen-mitt-romney\/\" title=\"GOP candidate runs for Senate seat currently held by Sen. Mitt Romney.\">filed paperwork preparing<\/a> for a run, but has not made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/microsoft-will-suspend-donations-to-any-gop-lawmakers-who-challenged-2020-election-results\/\" title=\"Microsoft Will Suspend Donations to Any GOP Lawmakers Who Challenged 2020 Election Results\">final decision<\/a> on a 2024 reelection campaign.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5286091\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/23\/id5286091-trent-staggs.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n      Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs. (Riverton via The Epoch Times)<br \/>\n    <\/figure>\n<h3>Why Staggs is Running<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Washington is broken<\/li>\n<li>Compromise costs trillions<\/li>\n<li>More IRS agents than border agents<\/li>\n<li>Unchecked money sent to Ukraine<\/li>\n<li>$4 a gallon for gas<\/li>\n<li>Almost $32 trillion in debt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Staggs also highlighted how he stood up during the COVID-19 pandemic against a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">mask mandate<\/a>. He opposed mandating masks and instead encouraged residents to do the right thing. Staggs lost the race for Salt Lake County&#8217;s mayor to a Democrat, but he remains committed to pushing back on government overreach.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5286096\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/23\/id5286096-brad-wilson-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n      Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson. (Utah House of Representatives via The Epoch Times)<br \/>\n    <\/figure>\n<h3>Another Possible Candidate<\/h3>\n<p>Romney, 76, is serving his first term in the Senate after moving to Utah from Massachusetts. Another possible candidate has not yet emerged, but the race is sure to be an interesting one.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 23, a Utah mayor announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah). He believes Washington is broken and compromising costs trillions. The mayor also criticized the number of IRS agents compared to border agents and the high gas prices while the country exports oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":1936614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4076,6203,5646,8403,5389,4296,5839,7025,3740],"class_list":["post-1936613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-candidate","tag-gop","tag-held","tag-mitt","tag-romney","tag-runs","tag-seat","tag-sen","tag-senate"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}