Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said in an interview last Thursday that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) “would not become the nominee if she were to run” for president after the Wyoming lawmaker acknowledged earlier she was considering a presidential bid.
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“I don’t think someone who is seen outside the Trump circle would have any realistic chance of becoming the nominee in 2024, barring something I can’t foresee at this stage,” Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, told the Deseret News. “If he doesn’t run again, I think it’ll be people who either were supporters of his or people who didn’t say much about him and then would be open to become the nominee.”
“I’m not going to encourage anyone to run for president. I’ve done that myself, and that’s something I’m not doing again. I don’t know if she really wants to do that. She would not become the nominee if she were to run. I can’t imagine that would occur,” he also said.
The Utah senator, who voted in favor of impeaching Trump following the Capitol riot similar to Cheney, also said he appreciated her courage for sticking to conscience given the risk and consequences her deviation with former President Trump and much of the Republican Party posed for her.
“I salute her courage. You wouldn’t call it courage, by the way, if there were no consequence for doing what you think is right. She did what she thought was right. I believe she was right,” he told the Deseret News.
Cheney acknowledged in an interview on NBC News’s “Today” show earlier this week that she was considering a presidential bid, remarks that came one day after she lost her primary to attorney Harriet Hageman (R).
The Wyoming lawmaker drew the ire of Trump after she pushed back against his baseless allegations about the 2020 election and for later serving on a House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Trump endorsed a primary challenger to her as a result, successfully ousting the three-term incumbent.
“That’s a decision that I’m going to make in the coming months, and I’m not going to make any announcements here this morning. But it is something that I am thinking about, and I’ll make a decision in the coming months,” Cheney said when asked if she was considering running for the presidency.
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This is the only time I have ever agreed with Romney, Cheney would never be the GOP candidate for president. She would be hard pressed to gather the funds it would take for her to run as an independent. The more she leans towards the democrats the more voters will lean towards Trump, although I hope he passes on running because there is just too much hate Trump feelings across this nation, and that would cost the GOP the chance to win control of the house or the senate.
Even a broken clock, is right twice a day.. IT Had to happen sooner or later, that Romney would say something, we all agreed with..
I have to agree.
This from the guy who thought he should be President because he was next in the establishment line, or maybe because the “U” in Utah comes before the “W” in Wyoming. The fact is she WILL run, just to split the ticket and keep Trump from winning, which just goes to show you how self-destructive the Trump derangement syndrome is to those who catch the virus.