{"id":2030724,"date":"2023-09-13T15:14:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T19:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senator-mitt-romney-declares-he-wont-run-again-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:15:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T19:15:34","slug":"senator-mitt-romney-declares-he-wont-run-again-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senator-mitt-romney-declares-he-wont-run-again-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Mitt Romney won&#8217;t seek re-election in 2024."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fsenator-mitt-romney-declares-he-wont-run-again-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=2030724&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 data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Sen. Mitt Romney Announces Decision Not to Seek Second Term<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah)\u200d has announced \u200dthat he will not seek a second term in the \u200bSenate.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 Republican \u2064presidential nominee made \u200bhis announcement on Sept. 13, \u200bciting a desire to \u2064allow a new generation to &#8220;step up&#8221;\u200c and &#8220;shape the world they&#8217;re going to live in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Utah Republican, 76, pointed out that a second term \u2062would take him into his \u200c80s and would likely be less productive\u200b and less gratifying than the current term.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/more-than-60-utah-gop-state-lawmakers-back-possible-romney-senate-challenger-5458016\">More Than 60 Utah GOP State Lawmakers\u200d Back\u2062 Possible Romney Senate Challenger<\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">8\/11\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/mitt-romney-issues-warning-to-2024-republican-candidates-5425404\">Mitt Romney Issues Warning\u200b to 2024 Republican Candidates<\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">7\/26\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>\u201cI have spent\u2063 my\u2062 last \u200c25 years in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/when-office-perks-become-perils\/\" title=\"Office perks can turn into dangers.\">public\u200d service<\/a> of one kind or another. At the end of \u200banother term, I\u2019d be in \u200dmy \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-hollywood-destroyed-director-michael-cimino\/\" title=\"How Hollywood Destroyed Director Michael Cimino\">mid-eighties<\/a>. Frankly, \u200cit\u2019s time for a new generation\u2063 of leaders,&#8221; \u2064Mr. Romney said\u2063 in an announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenatorRomney\/status\/1702013849707106380?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted\u2063 to X<\/a>, \u2063formerly Twitter. &#8220;They\u2019re the ones that need \u200dto\u2064 make \u200cthe decisions that will\u200b shape the world they will be living in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He\u200b also attributed his decision to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senator-mitt-romney-declares-he-wont-run-again-in-2024\/\" title=\"Sen. Mitt Romney won't seek re-election in 2024.\">personal mistrust<\/a> of President Joe Biden and former \u200bPresident Donald \u200dTrump&#8217;s\u2063 leadership as well as the chaos he\u200b sees among House Republicans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult\u200c for \u2064the \u200dHouse to operate, from what I can tell,\u201d\u200c he said in an interview\u200b with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/09\/13\/mitt-romney-senate-reelection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The\u2062 Washington Post<\/a> prior to his\u2063 formal announcement. &#8220;And perhaps more importantly, we\u2019re probably \u2064going \u200bto have either \u2064Trump or Biden as our next president.\u2062 And Biden is unable to lead on important matters, and Trump is unwilling\u2063 to \u2064lead\u200d on \u200cimportant\u200d matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In \u200c2020, Mr. Romney \u2062made history when he voted to impeach\u2063 and convict \u2064a president from his own party. He was one of\u200d just seven Republicans\u200c to \u200dvote to convict President Trump in the second\u200c round of impeachment, and he was the only Republican to vote against President Trump in the first round. In \u200dboth instances, \u2063the Senate voted against\u2064 convicting \u200dthe former president.<\/p>\n<p>Months after\u2062 his vote in the\u2062 second impeachment trial, Mr. Romney was booed by a gathering of the most active members \u2064of the Utah Republican\u200c Party, and \u200ca move to\u200b punish him narrowly failed.\u2062 On the campaign trail for the midterm elections of 2022, \u200dmembers of the party hurled the label &#8220;Mitt Romney Republican&#8221; at their rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. \u2063Romney,\u2064 who was elected\u2063 to the Senate in 2018 with 63 percent of the vote, said he will finish \u200chis term, which ends in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While I&#8217;m not running for re-election, I&#8217;m not retiring from the fight,&#8221; Mr. Romney said. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be your United States senator until January of 2025. I will keep working on these and other \u2062issues, and I&#8217;ll \u2062advance \u200cour state&#8217;s\u200b numerous priorities. I look forward to working with you\u200b and \u200bwith folks ac<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>term would require him to serve until he is 82 years old, and he believes it is time for someone else to take the reins and make a difference. Romney&#8217;s decision comes as a surprise to many, as he has been a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump within his own party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1843,"featured_media":2030725,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2030724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"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\/2030724","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\/1843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}