{"id":2352562,"date":"2024-10-09T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitt-romney-declines-to-endorse-harris-but-still-wont-vote-for-trump-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T11:20:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:20:54","slug":"mitt-romney-declines-to-endorse-harris-but-still-wont-vote-for-trump-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitt-romney-declines-to-endorse-harris-but-still-wont-vote-for-trump-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney declines to endorse Harris but still won&#8217;t vote for Trump &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fmitt-romney-declines-to-endorse-harris-but-still-wont-vote-for-trump-washington-examiner%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=2352562&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 (R-UT) has stated that he will not endorse Vice President Kamala Harris, while also reaffirming his refusal to support former President Donald Trump \u200bin the upcoming election. During remarks \u200bat the Hinckley Institute \u200dof Politics at the University of Utah, Romney expressed his clear opposition to Trump, indicating that both he \u200band former House Speaker Paul Ryan, his running\u2062 mate from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/associated-press-doubles-down-on-left-wing-rhetoric\/\" title=\"Associated Press Doubles Down on Left-Wing Rhetoric\">2012 presidential election<\/a>,\u200b will not back the Republican ticket this cycle. He mentioned the need for the Republican Party to\u200b be &#8220;rebuilt or reoriented,&#8221; and expressed his desire to continue having a voice\u2063 within the party post-election.<\/p>\n<p>Romney&#8217;s history of opposition to Trump includes past instances where he has opted not \u2063to vote for him in previous elections, choosing instead \u2062to write in his wife, \u200bAnn, in 2016. His firm\u200d stance reflects a broader\u2063 concern within the party about its future direction, suggesting that a renewed GOP\u2062 likely\u2062 needs to distance itself from Trump. Political strategist Doug Heye noted that the\u200c party will\u2063 evolve post-Trump and\u2063 hopes it retains &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woman-has-courage-to-say-what-millions-of-americans-are-thinking-im-done-with-this-covid-insanity\/\" title=\"Woman Has Courage to Say What Millions of Americans Are Thinking \u201cI\u2019m Done\u201d With this COVID Insanity\">sane people<\/a>&#8221; to lead the changes. Romney&#8217;s\u2062 longstanding\u200b criticism \u2063of Trump includes significant moral concerns, particularly regarding Trump&#8217;s legal troubles and ethical behavior, highlighting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abortion-and-covid-mandates-take-center-stage-in-louisiana-governor-debate\/\" title=\"Abortion and COVID mandates dominate Louisiana Governor Debate.\">clear ideological divide<\/a> within the party.  <\/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><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Mitt Romney declines to endorse Harris while reiterating he won&rsquo;t vote for Trump<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1780083\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mitt-romney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Mitt Romney<\/a> (R-UT) is not endorsing Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>On Tuesday, Romney reaffirmed his longtime distaste for former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> without saying he would support the Democratic ticket this year. Neither he nor former House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/paul-ryan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Paul Ryan<\/a>, his running mate in the 2012 presidential election, will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3160586\/who-has-and-hasnt-endorsed-harris-and-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>support<\/a> the top of the Republican ticket this election.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve made it very clear that I don&rsquo;t want Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States,&rdquo; Romney said at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Romney said the Republican Party would likely need &ldquo;to be rebuilt or reoriented&rdquo; no matter what happens in the election, noting that he would like to &ldquo;have a voice&rdquo; in the party following the election.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I believe I will have more influence in the party by virtue of saying it as I&rsquo;ve said it,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not planning on changing the way I&rsquo;ve described it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In the 2016 election, Romney wrote in the name of his wife, Ann, for president, and in 2020, he said he did not vote for Trump but would not say if he voted for Joe Biden instead.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All of those now pro-Kamala voices will not be allowed back in,&rdquo; Doug Heye, a Republican strategist, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/08\/us\/politics\/mitt-romney-trump-harris.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>. &ldquo;But there will be a GOP post-Trump, and there should be some sane people remaining to fix that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Romney has expressed his distaste for Trump over the years, telling MSNBC, &ldquo;When someone has been determined by a jury to have committed sexual assault, that is not someone who I want my kids and grandkids to see as president of the United States.&rdquo; On Trump&rsquo;s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), he said, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know that I can disrespect someone more.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Still, Romney will not join the long list of Republicans who have backed Harris&rsquo;s candidacy. More than 200 Republicans who worked for Romney, 2008 presidential nominee John McCain, and former President George W. Bush endorsed Harris in an August <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/08\/26\/republicans-endorse-harris-bush-romney-mccain\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harris has also received endorsements from high-profile Republican figures such as former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3175566\/liz-cheney-campaigning-harris-wisconsin-birthplace-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Liz Cheney<\/a>, and former Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3170276\/former-gop-arizona-senator-jeff-flake-endorses-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Jeff Flake<\/a>. Sarah Palin is the only living former Republican presidential or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">vice presidential candidate<\/a> who has endorsed Trump this year.<\/p>\n<p>Bush said he would not endorse a candidate in this election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1780083\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1780083\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney won&#8217;t endorse Harris and reiterates he won&#8217;t vote for Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":2352563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Mitt-Romney.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13348,32438,32772,32603,3634],"class_list":["post-2352562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-endorsement","tag-kamala-harris","tag-mitt-romney","tag-political-news","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Mitt-Romney.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352562","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\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2352563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}