{"id":2022330,"date":"2023-09-05T15:03:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T19:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/romney-approval-rating-hits-three-year-high-with-most-voters-poll\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T15:04:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T19:04:26","slug":"romney-approval-rating-hits-three-year-high-with-most-voters-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/romney-approval-rating-hits-three-year-high-with-most-voters-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney&#8217;s popularity soars to a three-year peak among voters: Survey"},"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\">20<\/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-approval-rating-hits-three-year-high-with-most-voters-poll%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=2022330&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--><h2>Sen. Mitt Romney&#8217;s Approval\u200c Rating\u200d Soars in Hypothetical Senate Primary<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Mitt \u200cRomney\u200c (R-UT) is experiencing a surge in\u200b his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-trump-americans-have-seen-their-best-wage-growth-in-40-years\/\" title=\"Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years\">approval rating<\/a> as he\u200b contemplates whether to seek another term next year. According to a recent Deseret News\/Hinckley\u200c Institute survey, Romney&#8217;s job rating among \u200cUtah Republicans has skyrocketed \u2063from 40% in May to an impressive 56% in August, marking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/romney-approval-rating-hits-three-year-high-with-most-voters-poll\/\" title=\"Romney's popularity soars to a three-year peak among voters: Survey\">strongest polling numbers<\/a> in three years.<\/p>\n<h3>A Maverick Senator Unafraid \u2062to Speak Out<\/h3>\n<p>Romney has distinguished himself as a rare senator in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-miss-texas-averie-bishop-challenges-republican-angie-chen-button-for-state-house-seat\/\" title=\"Ex-Miss Texas Averie Bishop takes on GOP's Angie Chen Button for state House.\">predominantly conservative state<\/a> who is unafraid to \u200bvoice his dissent against members of his \u2064own party, including former President Donald Trump. In fact, Romney\u200c was one of seven Republican senators\u2063 who \u2063voted to convict Trump for inciting an insurrection \u2062at the U.S. Capitol during the former president&#8217;s second impeachment trial. Despite the Senate&#8217;s acquittal of Trump, Romney has \u2064remained at odds with his own party ever since.<\/p>\n<p>While Romney\u200b firmly believes that Trump is &#8220;unfit for office,&#8221; he has also criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg&#8217;s handling of the former president&#8217;s first indictment, emphasizing \u2064the importance of equal treatment under the law for all individuals, even former presidents.<\/p>\n<h3>A Divided Reception Among Utah Voters<\/h3>\n<p>Interestingly, nearly half of &#8220;very \u200dconservative&#8221; voters in Utah strongly disapprove of Romney&#8217;s \u200djob performance.\u200c However, he fares more favorably among &#8220;moderate&#8221; and &#8220;somewhat conservative&#8221; respondents.<\/p>\n<h3>Undecided on Future \u200cPlans<\/h3>\n<p>Romney has stated that he will make a decision on whether to run for a second Senate term in 2024 by this fall. He emphasized that his decision will be based on his belief in his ability to \u2064effectively serve the people of Utah.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll be making that decision \u200csometime this \u200dfall,&#8221; Romney shared with KUTV 2News in Salt Lake on Aug. 21. \u200d&#8221;Haven&#8217;t made \u2064a final decision yet, but\u200c my decision will be based on whether I think I can get things done for the people of Utah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs is currently the only other Republican contender actively campaigning for Romney&#8217;s seat. Staggs\u2062 has criticized\u200d the first-term senator\u2064 for his vote \u200bto convict Trump and\u200d has alleged that Romney spends\u2062 a significant amount of time outside of Utah.<\/p>\n<p>While\u200b uncertainty looms over Romney&#8217;s reelection, \u2063his fundraising filings reveal that his campaign has received over $1 million in contributions\u2064 from April\u2064 through \u200dJune.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">CLICK HERE TO \u2064READ MORE FROM THE\u200b WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) achieved a three-year high approval rating in a hypothetical U.S. Senate Republican primary election. As he contemplates running for another term, Romney&#8217;s job rating among Utah Republicans surged from 40% in May to 56% in August. This Deseret News\/Hinckley Institute survey reflects his strongest polling numbers in three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2022331,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2022330","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}