Some people just can’t take a hint. Most of them are in D.C.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who’s up for reelection in 2024, said in an interview published on Wednesday that “I’m convinced that if I run, I win.”
“I’ve faced long odds: Getting the nomination in 2012 was a long shot, becoming a Republican governor in one of the most liberal states in America, Massachusetts. … So I’m convinced that if I run, I win. But that’s a decision I’ll make,” the first-term Utah senator told the news outlet.
Republicans winning gubernatorial elections in Massachusetts is not exactly unheard of.
Just ask Charlie Baker who served out two terms. Romney’s predecessors were Republicans, at least by party identification, so I’m not sure why he keeps bragging about it as if it’s some impossible feat.
The 2012 primaries were a train wreck in which Romney had all the money and faced limited opposition and, aside from Gingrich, had no serious competition. And I have no idea why Romney is boasting about the nomination in a race that he famously blew.
Anyway, let’s do something that no one involved in this seemed to bother to do, ask the voters.
Romney has a slightly higher job approval rating than disapproval rating, 48.9% to 46.9%, according to the survey. Those numbers have remained fairly consistent since he took office nearly four years ago.
But looking ahead to 2024, 51.3% of voters in the state say he should definitely or probably not seek a second term, while 47.4% say he definitely or probably should run.
The enthusiasm is really marked with only a quarter saying he should “definitely” run again.
Romney continues to have solid support among Democrats in Utah.
The poll found 72.4% of Utahns who identified as Democrats want him to run again. More than 65% of voters who identified as “very liberal” or “somewhat liberal” say Romney should seek reelection as do more than 62% of “moderate” Utahns, according to the survey.
At least Mitt finally found a base. Democrats worried that a conservative candidate might run and win.
His owners on the Left find him to be useful. No reason they can’t ensure he returns to D. C. the same way they ensured Trump didn’t.
He’s such a loser.
I know. A moderate Republican. Disgusting.
There ‘ain’t no such thing’ as a ‘moderate’ Republican. The guy is a Republican In Name Only (i.e., a D’rat who for whatever the reason just ‘says’ that he is a Republican and the voters are fool enough to allow it).
Doesn’t he find Trump disgusting? Why play games?
Did you think he was a moderate when he was running against Obama?
What does one call a Democrat who is the opponent of another Democrat in the GENERAL election, but all while that person is not actually ‘running’ against him? I myself would call such a ‘useful idiot’ more a ‘ringer’ than anything else.
And he can and will win. “Elections” are rigged and only a cruel illusion.
The former Moderate Governor of the liberal state of Massachusetts would be a good choice to run for the Democrat nominee for POTUS.
Any Democrat nominee worth his salt has to be a Communist in all but name.
Romney’s already embraced BLM and abolishing marriage, but I don’t think he quite qualifies on the economic front yet.
Any Rino worth his salt has to be a right winger on one issue to grant legitimacy to his selling out on the rest. If we all had to let a BLM crowd rape a newlywed before marriage like Greece G-d forbid then he would be fighting for leftist economic policies, not that he doesn’t already when it does something for the left. But he would not say them.
What we have here is a White reincarnation of the legendary Screaming J. Hawkins:
Of course he let the cat out of the bag with that boast of winning his next election. What he means is….we have enough pre-prepared ballots to make it a rout. Somewhere in SLC is a warehouse full of Romney ballots already signed and ready to be counted….when he finds himself behind in the legitimate voting. Just like Biden in 2020. can there be any doubt?
Romney claims that he can win again. If he runs and loses, he can just do what he has done before. Go to another state and run there. Instead, he can leave now and run elsewhere. He can ask Zer0Bama how many other states there are.