Utah’s new senator is taking a page from predecessor Mitt Romney and pledging to be an independent voice in the upper chamber and not necessarily a “rubber stamp” for President-elect Donald Trump. Sen.
At a farewell news conference in Salt Lake City on Friday, outgoing U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney said the GOP is now Donald Trump's party.
Sen. Mitt Romney has given his final remarks after seeing the Republican Party for which he was once the standard bearer drastically transform under Donald Trump.
Utah Senator Mitt Romney, who will retire when the new Congress is sworn in this January, is showing interest in political commentary. As the new administration prepares to take office, Vance, who served with Romney in the Senate,
Romney, a longtime critic of the president-elect, is leaving the Senate in January, after one term representing Utah.
Donald Trump won. He won overwhelmingly. He said what he was going to do, and that’s what he’s doing,” Romney said Sunday.
GOP Senator Mitt Romney said on Sunday that MAGA Republicanism now wholly dominates the Republican Party, echoing the skepticism of those who have been waiting for some kind of “post-Trump” Republican Party to emerge.
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney will speak with local reporters Friday morning in Salt Lake City as he prepares to wrap up his first and only term in the U.S. Senate.
Sen. Mitt Romney spoke optimistically about President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration on Friday despite past disagreements with him.
John Curtis, who was voted in to replace outgoing Sen. Mitt Romney, said Republicans should not expect him to bend to President-elect Donald Trump's will.
Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) became the first, and for a time, the only senator in U.S. […]