{"id":2024358,"date":"2023-09-07T08:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-celeste-maloys-win-in-utahs-special-election-could-mean-for-romneys-future\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T08:41:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:41:37","slug":"what-celeste-maloys-win-in-utahs-special-election-could-mean-for-romneys-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-celeste-maloys-win-in-utahs-special-election-could-mean-for-romneys-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Celeste Maloy&#8217;s victory in Utah&#8217;s special election may impact Romney&#8217;s future."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fwhat-celeste-maloys-win-in-utahs-special-election-could-mean-for-romneys-future%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=2024358&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>Utah Republicans Choose\u200c Celeste Maloy in Special Election<\/h2>\n<p>Utah Republicans made their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-police-union-president-far-left-infiltrated-capitol-protests\/\" title=\"Chicago Police Union President: Far-left infiltrated Capitol protests\">voices heard<\/a>\u2062 in\u2064 a three-way GOP \u200cprimary, rejecting a candidate who criticized former President Donald Trump\u200d and nominating\u200c Celeste Maloy instead. This outcome could spell trouble for Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), \u200dwho has distanced himself from fellow Republicans \u2063by openly opposing Trump&#8217;s bid for a third consecutive presidential \u2064nomination.<\/p>\n<h3>A Potential Setback \u200cfor Romney<\/h3>\n<p>Sen. Romney has yet to \u2063announce his\u200b plans\u200b for \u2064the\u2064 2024 Senate reelection, but \u2064his future may\u200d be \u200din jeopardy. \u2062Celeste Maloy&#8217;s victory over former state Rep. Becky \u2063Edwards, \u2063a \u200cGOP member who voted for President Joe Biden \u200din 2020, suggests that \u2064Utah Republicans are \u2064not inclined to support a candidate who attacks Trump. It&#8217;s worth noting that \u2062Trump won the \u200cheavily conservative state in both of his\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-finally-discovers-china-uses-u-s-media-to-attack-the-united-states\/\" title=\"CNN Finally Discovers China Uses U.S. Media To Attack The United States\">presidential campaigns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards, \u2064who ran an unsuccessful centrist campaign\u200c in 2022\u2064 against Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), expressed her belief that Trump deserved impeachment for his role \u200cin\u200b inciting the\u2062 Capitol riot on Jan. 6, \u200c2021.\u200d In\u2063 contrast, Romney made history as the\u200b first senator to vote\u200d to \u2062convict a president of\u200d his own party during Trump&#8217;s \u2062first \u200bimpeachment\u200c trial in February \u20642020.<\/p>\n<p>While on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/central-african-republic-votes-under-threat-of-violence\/\" title=\"Central African Republic votes under threat of violence\">campaign trail<\/a>, Edwards praised Romney for his\u200b commitment to following his conscience, but this endorsement \u2062may\u200d have been viewed unfavorably by GOP voters.<\/p>\n<h3>Romney&#8217;s Stance on Trump<\/h3>\n<p>Romney was one\u200c of \u2062seven Republican senators who voted\u2062 to convict Trump during his\u200b second impeachment trial, just as he did during the \u2064first impeachment. He firmly \u2063believed \u200bthat Trump was\u2063 &#8220;guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust.&#8221; The senator has been vocal about Trump&#8217;s legal battles, criticizing him \u200cfor \u200bnot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-celeste-maloys-win-in-utahs-special-election-could-mean-for-romneys-future\/\" title=\"Celeste Maloy's victory in Utah's special election may impact Romney's future.\">returning classified documents<\/a> and bringing \u2064charges upon himself.<\/p>\n<p>Maloy, the Republican nominee, received\u2062 endorsements from the state Republican\u2064 Party and \u2064her former boss,\u2063 Rep. Chris \u200cStewart (R-UT), whom she hopes to\u2063 succeed. Despite poll numbers favoring\u200c Edwards in \u200cthe \u2063days leading \u200cup to \u2064the election, Maloy secured 38% of the\u2063 vote, with Edwards coming \u200cin a close second \u2064at \u206235%.<\/p>\n<p>A recent survey \u2063indicates that Romney could \u2063fare well if he decides to run for reelection. However, while \u200c&#8221;very conservative&#8221; voters in Utah strongly disapprove of \u2064his job performance, he\u200c enjoys higher \u2064approval among\u200b &#8220;moderate&#8221; and &#8220;somewhat conservative&#8221;\u2064 voters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah Republicans rejected a candidate critical of ex-President Trump, choosing Celeste Maloy in a three-way GOP primary. This outcome could spell difficulty for Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), who has distanced himself from local Republicans by openly opposing Trump&#8217;s bid to secure his party&#8217;s support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2024359,"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-2024358","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\/2024358","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=2024358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}