{"id":2030842,"date":"2023-09-13T16:33:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T20:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-celebrates-romney-not-seeking-second-term-in-senate-fantastic-news-for-america\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T16:33:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T20:33:43","slug":"trump-celebrates-romney-not-seeking-second-term-in-senate-fantastic-news-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-celebrates-romney-not-seeking-second-term-in-senate-fantastic-news-for-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump hails Romney&#8217;s decision to not seek re-election as Senate &#8216;great news for America&#8217;"},"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\">28<\/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%2Ftrump-celebrates-romney-not-seeking-second-term-in-senate-fantastic-news-for-america%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=2030842&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>Former President Donald Trump Celebrates Sen. Mitt Romney&#8217;s Decision<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump took\u2064 to Truth Social to express his excitement \u2064over Sen. Mitt Romney&#8217;s announcement that he would not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-dem-senate-candidate-announces-support-for-medicare-for-all\/\" title=\"Wisconsin Dem Senate Candidate Announces Support for Medicare for All\">seek reelection<\/a> in the Senate. Trump declared it &#8220;FANTASTIC\u2062 NEWS FOR\u2064 AMERICA, THE GREAT STATE \u2063OF UTAH, &#038; FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Trump&#8217;s Thoughts on Romney&#8217;s Decision<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;FANTASTIC NEWS FOR AMERICA, THE GREAT STATE\u2064 OF UTAH, &#038; FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. MITT ROMNEY, SOMETIMES REFERRED TO \u200cAS PIERRE\u2062 DELECTO,\u2064 WILL NOT BE\u2064 SEEKING \u200cA SECOND TERM IN THE U.S. SENATE, WHERE HE DID NOT SERVE WITH DISTINCTION. A BIG\u2064 PRIMARY FIGHT AGAINST HIM\u2064 WAS IN THE OFFING, BUT NOW\u2063 THAT WILL NOT BE NECESSARY. CONGRATS TO ALL. MAKE AMERICA \u2062GREAT AGAIN!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump and Romney have had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/she-abused-him-and-urged-him-to-commit-suicide-which-he-did-she-probably-wont-serve-any-jail-time\/\" title=\"She Abused Him And Urged Him To Commit Suicide, Which He Did. She Probably Won\u2019t Serve Any Jail Time.\">tumultuous relationship<\/a> over the years. Trump initially endorsed Romney during his \u20632012 presidential\u2062 campaign, but their differences became \u2064apparent as time went on.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015,\u2062 when Trump announced his own presidential campaign, Romney criticized his remarks on \u2062illegal immigrants and Sen. John McCain. \u2063Trump fired back, even claiming that Romney &#8220;choked&#8221; in the 2012 election. The tension between\u200b them reached its peak in 2016 when Romney called Trump a \u200c&#8221;phony&#8221; and \u200ba &#8220;fraud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite their past conflicts, Romney congratulated Trump on\u200b his victory in the 2016 presidential\u200d election and \u200ceven met with him during the transition period. Trump endorsed Romney when he ran for the Senate in \u200d2018, \u2062stating that he would make a great senator.<\/p>\n<p>During Romney&#8217;s time as a senator, he often criticized\u2062 Trump within the Republican Party. He\u2063 gained attention for having a secret Twitter account under \u200dthe name &#8220;Pierre Delecto,&#8221; where he expressed his dissent towards\u2064 Trump. Romney\u200d also made history as the first\u2062 senator to vote to\u2063 convict a president\u200c from his own party in an impeachment trial, voting to convict Trump on abuse \u2062of power\u2063 in 2020 and during Trump&#8217;s second trial following the Capitol riot in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Trump&#8217;s reaction to\u2063 Romney&#8217;s decision not to\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-celebrates-romney-not-seeking-second-term-in-senate-fantastic-news-for-america\/\" title=\"Trump hails Romney's decision to not seek re-election as Senate 'great news for America'\">seek reelection reflects<\/a> their complex history and the ongoing dynamics within\u200b the Republican Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump praised Sen. Mitt Romney&#8217;s decision not to run for re-election, calling it &#8220;fantastic news for America, Utah, and the Republican Party.&#8221; Romney, elected in 2018, cited concerns about his effectiveness in a second term as the reason for his announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2030843,"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-2030842","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\/2030842","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=2030842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}