{"id":2031042,"date":"2023-09-13T19:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T23:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/romney-acknowledges-pitching-manchin-on-starting-third-party-ahead-of-2024\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T19:09:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T23:09:09","slug":"romney-acknowledges-pitching-manchin-on-starting-third-party-ahead-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/romney-acknowledges-pitching-manchin-on-starting-third-party-ahead-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney admits discussing third party with Manchin for 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\">18<\/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-acknowledges-pitching-manchin-on-starting-third-party-ahead-of-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=2031042&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 Pitches Idea of New Political Party to Sen. Joe Manchin<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) revealed on Wednesday that he had privately approached \u2062Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) about the possibility of starting a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">political party<\/a>\u2062 before\u200c the\u200d 2024 election. The 76-year-old Romney made this revelation during \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yellen-eager-to-work-with-china-on-debt-other-global-challenges\/\" title=\"Yellen \u2018eager\u2019 to work with China on debt, other global challenges\">press\u200d conference<\/a> in \u2062his office, shortly after \u200bsurprising everyone with \u2063his decision not to seek re-election next year.<\/p>\n<p>When\u2064 asked about his admission \u200bin\u2063 a recent interview, Romney responded, \u200c&#8221;Oh, that was several\u2063 months\u200b ago. Who knows what might happen? I think Sen. Manchin is looking more closely at No Labels at this stage. I can&#8217;t speak for him, \u2063but Joe and I speak a good deal and I raise ideas\u2064 with him. I \u2063actually think a third<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-christie-calls-no-labels-third-candidate-movement-a-fools-errand\/\" title=\"Chris Christie dismisses No Labels third candidate movement as a 'waste of time'.\">-party\u200d candidate<\/a> would make it more \u200blikely that it&#8217;s just a spoiler and it would not be successful in electing someone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Reasons Behind Romney&#8217;s Decision<\/h3>\n<p>Romney\u2063 cited his age and\u2064 his belief that his second \u200bterm in the Senate would be less effective as the primary reasons for his choice\u2064 not to seek re-election. He emphasized the need for a &#8220;new \u2063generation of leaders&#8221; to take charge\u2063 and make decisions that will shape the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have spent \u2062my last 25 years in public service of \u200cone kind or \u200banother. At \u2063the end \u200bof another term, I\u2019d be in my mid-80s,&#8221; Romney \u2064explained. &#8220;Frankly, it\u2019s time for a new generation of leaders. They\u2019re the ones \u2063that need to make the decisions that will shape the world they will be living in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Criticism of Biden and Trump<\/h3>\n<p>In his announcement, Romney didn&#8217;t shy away\u2064 from criticizing both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. He expressed\u200b his belief that neither of them is capable or willing to\u200b address the nation&#8217;s most\u2064 pressing issues.<\/p>\n<h3>Manchin&#8217;s Decision and No Labels<\/h3>\n<p>As for \u2063Sen. Manchin, a centrist Democrat representing a predominantly Republican state, he has yet to decide whether he will run for a third term in 2024. He has also been a strong advocate for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/peter-navarro-indicted-for-contempt-of-congress-for-refusing-to-comply-with-jan-6-committee-subpoena\/\" title=\"Peter Navarro Indicted for Contempt of Congress for Refusing to Comply With Jan 6 Committee Subpoena\">centrist group<\/a> No Labels and their plans to create a\u200d third<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-group-warns-about-spoiler-third-party-ticket-that-could-hand-trump-the-presidency\/\" title=\"Democratic group warns about \u2018spoiler\u2019 third-party ticket that could hand Trump the presidency\">-party presidential ticket<\/a>. Speculation has arisen that Manchin \u200bcould potentially\u2063 be their nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Romney&#8217;s\u200b proposal for a new \u200cpolitical party and his decision not to seek re-election have sparked intrigue and speculation about the future of American politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) privately proposed to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) the idea of forming a new political party for the 2024 election. Romney, 76, revealed this after announcing his unexpected choice to not run for re-election, during a conversation with reporters in his office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2031043,"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-2031042","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\/2031042","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=2031042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}