{"id":2246415,"date":"2024-05-16T19:55:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T23:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/romney-defends-trump-blasts-biden-over-border-was-not-a-problem-with-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T19:56:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T23:56:12","slug":"romney-defends-trump-blasts-biden-over-border-was-not-a-problem-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/romney-defends-trump-blasts-biden-over-border-was-not-a-problem-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Supports Trump, Criticizes Biden on Border Issue"},"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\">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%2Fromney-defends-trump-blasts-biden-over-border-was-not-a-problem-with-trump%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=2246415&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--><p>Senator Mitt Romney from Utah defended former President Donald Trump&#8217;s approach to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-border-threat-so-taboo-that-few-dare-speak-of-it\/\" title=\"A Border Threat So Taboo That Few Dare Speak Of It\">border issues<\/a> and criticized President Joe\u200d Biden\u2019s handling during an interview. \u200bRomney&#8217;s comments\u200b were made on MSNBC with\u200d Stephanie Ruhle, emphasizing the ongoing\u200d concerns around border security and illegal immigration throughout Biden&#8217;s term. Rommey highlighted Biden&#8217;s inaction on the pressing border challenges.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mitt-romney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mitt Romney<\/a> (R-UT) defended former President Donald Trump\u2019s handling of the border during an interview this week while criticizing President Joe Biden\u2019s disastrous record on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Romney made the remarks during an interview with Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC as the subject of border security and illegal immigration has routinely been one of the top issues for voters for the duration of Biden\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have been screaming about the border for all three and a half years Joe Biden has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">president<\/a>,\u201d Romney said. \u201cHe\u2019s not done anything to solve the problem of the border. That\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-huge-simple-math-shows-biden-claims-13-million-more-votes-than-there-were-eligible-voters-who-voted-in-2020-election\/\" title=\"BREAKING HUGE \u2013 \u2018Simple Math\u2019 Shows Biden Claims 13 MILLION More Votes Than There Were Eligible Voters Who Voted in 2020 Election!\">huge issue<\/a> for President Trump, I can\u2019t understand why President Biden didn\u2019t tackle this from the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Romney said that Trump was strong on the issue, that it was a major reason that he won in 2016, and that Trump believes it will propel him to victory again this fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I were President Biden, I\u2019d be all over that, and instead he served it to President Trump on a silver platter,\u201d Romney said.<\/p>\n<p>Romney noted that the issue of border security and illegal immigration \u201cwas not a problem when President Trump was president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he was president, he did a lot of things that sounded pretty ugly, but we didn\u2019t have anywhere near the number of people that have come into the country illegally as we have under President Biden, and that\u2019s something he should have done everything in his power, frankly, take some actions that maybe the courts would have stopped, then he\u2019d have a better argument saying, \u2018Hey, Congress needed to act,\u2019 but he never did that,\u201d Romney said. \u201cAs a result, the American people are saying, \u2018Hey, I want something else.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mitt Romney: The border \u201cwas not a problem when President Trump was president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe did a lot of things that sounded pretty ugly, but we didn\u2019t have anywhere NEAR the number of people that have come into the country illegally as we have under President Biden.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/49lDQWf2W6\">pic.twitter.com\/49lDQWf2W6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1791123274224566360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) praised Donald Trump&#8217;s border policies and criticized Joe Biden&#8217;s handling of the border issue in an interview. Speaking to Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC, Romney highlighted the contrast between the two administrations regarding border security and illegal immigration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2246416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Romney-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Romney-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246415","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2246416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}