Over 60 Utah Republican Lawmakers Deal Blow To Romney
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Mitt Romney might be in trouble.
Over 60 Utah Republican Lawmakers are endorsing Utah State House Speaker Brad Wilson who is considering challenging Mitt Romney for his senate seat.
More than 60 Republican lawmakers from Utah are pushing to end Sen. Mitt Romney’s career on Capitol Hill.
Utah state House Speaker Brad Wilson has taken the first steps toward challenging Romney, the Republicans’ 2012 presidential nominee, by forming a Senate exploratory committee in April.
The committee on Thursday announced that Wilson’s possible run is already being endorsed by three-quarters of his GOP colleagues in the statehouse’s lower chamber and two-thirds of Republicans in the Utah Senate.
“I am honored and encouraged to have the support of so many leaders from all corners of this great state,” Wilson said. “Utah needs a bold, conservative fighter in the U.S. Senate and I am humbled at the support and encouragement we’ve received so quickly.”
Romney voted to convict Donald Trump twice.
Wilson is considering challenging Romney, who has filed for a second term serving the U.S. Senate in 2024. Romney, a conservative lawmaker, has been a vocal critic of former President Trump and has exhibited an independent voting streak throughout his first term.
Romney was the sole Republican senator who voted to convict Trump the first time he was impeached. Romney voted again to convict the former president again when he was impeached after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. He also said he did not vote for Trump in the 2020 election.
Romney narrowly avoided being censured at the Utah GOP convention in 2021, following his vote to impeach Trump. The measure — which cited Romney’s conviction votes and was filled with conspiracy theories about Biden and the election — failed 711-798. Romney earlier was censured by a Utah county Republican party.
Is Romney in trouble?
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