Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah on Tuesday urged President Donald Trump to accept a clear loss to President-elect Joe Biden and called on Republicans to chart a course based on conservative principles as opposed to Trumpism.
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 GOP presidential nominee, told CBS News’ “This Morning” that it was “very unfortunate” Biden would take office in a “difficult position … as a result of President Trump’s efforts to try to overturn the will of the people.”
“We’ve had every court say President Trump doesn’t have a case. The Electoral College has voted,” Romney said. “It’s very clear that President-elect Biden will become our next president, and it’s time to move on.”
Sen. Mitt Romney: “Some of those that are really identified as being strong Trump supporters, they’d make a real difference if they came out and spoke and said, ‘You know what, we got to get behind this new President-elect. He was legitimately elected. Let's move on’” pic.twitter.com/Fa7WFgopL7
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Pressed on whether Trump or his GOP allies in Congress have hurt the nation, Romney said it’s “totally appropriate for people to exercise their legal rights,” but he made the case that those battles were over.
“I never saw any evidence of any kind of substantial voter fraud that would suggest there was any reason to overturn the election,” Romney added. “The court filings in over 50 courts — there was no evidence. A lot of rhetoric, but no evidence. If one pushes long and hard, once you’ve lost, move on. I lost in 2012. I didn’t like losing. But you have to acknowledge it and move on.”
GOPUSA Editor’s Note: Please keep in mind that this is a mainstream media story with the typical lean to the left. We publish the story for the purpose of informing our readers.
Romney’s comments came after electors on Monday voted in every state, with Biden racking up 306 Electoral College votes, as projected, compared to Trump’s 232. In addition to winning the popular vote by nearly 7 million votes, Biden flipped key battleground states including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia to send him and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to the White House.
That hasn’t stopped Trump from his relentless refusal to concede, nor inspired him to stop tweeting accusations of fraud without providing any hard evidence.
GOPUSA Editor’s Note: The media claim of no evidence of voter fraud is disputed.
In tweets after the electors sealed Biden’s victory, Trump shared a report on allegedly crooked voting systems that was quickly discredited by state officials in Michigan. The report was prepared by Russell Ramsland of Allied Security Operations Group, who previously confused Michigan and Minnesota voting districts and who “ascribes motives of fraud and obfuscation to processes that are easily explained as routine election procedures or error corrections,” Michigan Elections Director Jonathan Brater said in a court filing, the Detroit Free Press reported.
State and local election officials of both parties assert that bipartisan teams of poll workers across the country followed the law and counted votes legally without major hiccups on Nov. 3 and thereafter.
Since Election Day, dozens of courts — including with judges appointed by Trump and other Republicans — have repeatedly dismissed or refused to hear lawsuits from the Trump campaign and Republican challengers alleging fraud or irregularities.
The Trump administration’s own security officials say the Nov. 3 election was the “most secure in American history” and that no voting system was compromised. Trump fired his own appointee, Christopher Krebs, the top Department of Homeland Security election security official, not long after Election Day.
More than 100 Republican House members backed a Texas lawsuit rejected by the Supreme Court, but a few GOP senators described the suit and other efforts to overturn the election as pure publicity stunts.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday morning congratulated Biden and recognized the former vice president and Delaware senator as president-elect for the first time.
Romney, one of the first Republicans to congratulate Biden, painted the transition to a new administration as a time of reckoning for his party. While the senator didn’t invoke Trump’s name as he discussed the future of the GOP, he contrasted traditional American conservative principles with Trump’s style and policies.
“I think the party is uncertain of the course that we’re going to take going forward,” Romney said. “The principles that have long been the hallmark of my party are very much in question. Do we believe in balancing the budget? Do we believe in standing up to people like Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin? Are we committed to the principle that character counts? These are all things that we’re going to have to decide over the coming years.”
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bite the dust mitt.
We know Romney has no character and his opinion doesn’t count. Too bad they can’t recall him.
I had to laugh, when he said “WE need to steer a course based on Conservative principles”..
WHAT CONSERVATIVE Principles has he ever held, let alone used!
Milquetoast Mitt…. that squishy, spineless, RINO jackoff…. He knows all about losing. The 2012 election was his to lose (although to be fair, there was no way that the they were going to allow the first black president to lose re-election).
Romney is worried that if Biden gets investigated, Romney’s ties to Burisma will be exposed. No wonder he wants all this over. Utahns, you need to recall this RINO.
When Mitt refers to “the will of the people”, what he really means is “the will of the Deep State”.
Romney doesn’t even know what he thinks.
AND his communist masters.
Oh, boohoo. A Basement dweller is sad.
The objections raised by Texas and others were potentially very accurate but certainly not a publicity stunt, and I believe were rased to share their concerns with the Electors nation-wide in an honest attempt to influence the Electors. Unfortunately, since the founding, the independence of the electors has been eliminated and the “College” has become basically a rubber stamp.
If you are interested in the original intent of the college Federalist #68 by Hamilton is a good read. It was to be a firewall (as we use the term today) against fraud, incompetent, and fraudulent candidates.
Regarding Mitt Romney, I voted for him but I think his loss to Obama rewired Mitt’s mind in some way. He doesn’t seem to be the same person. Floundering about like a fresh caught fish on the deck of a boat.
It was obvious he didn’t want too be president. He lost his nerve and didn’t want to be criticized by the Deep State Media. He’s floundering because Trump over powered his intellect.
IMO HE WILLFULLY lost to obozo, as he was in their pocket.
Trump is the only politician in my lifetime who really, truly stood up for the little guy. He fought hard for us, held nothing back, he gave the media and the deep state the hell they deserve. He told it like it is. The only other president who fought back (but to a far lesser degree) was Ronald Reagan.
“I never saw any evidence of any kind of substantial voter fraud that would suggest there was any reason to overturn the election” Really?
You know, Mitt, that MASK is supposed to go over your mouth and nose, NOT over your EYES!
I guess those BOXES of ballots coming out from under the tables in Georgia (after sending ALL but 4 Democrat Loyalists home for the evening) – resulting in a “Magical” spike in votes being recorded for Biden shortly thereafter – were all a MYTH (aka, “No Evidence”)?
You can count on 1 thing…
If the Republican Party (nationally) doesn’t STAND UP and SUPPORT Trump (and the procedural efforts to express the WILL of the LEGAL VOTERS [aka, electing Trump]), then I’m DONE with the Republican Party!
The SWAMP thinks if Trump is gone, things will go back to “normal”?
Not on your life!
I’ll NEVER vote for a RINO/Country Club Republican, or one who SAYS they’re Conservative, but don’t have the back-bone to STAND UP for OUR Rights and for what IS RIGHT!
HE could literally be standing there, while dem operatives were BURNING Conservative ballots, and mass printing out demoncrap ballots, and he’d STILL SAY “I see no evidence!”
The GOP has become a portable punching bag for the New American Communist Party. The GOP lacks the guts to stand up for what they say they are. With clowns like Romney, Kasich, and other RINO’s running around the GOP laughing at them and standing up a fighting for the cause of the Communist Party does anybody left standing in the GOP want to support the Slap Happy worthless politicians that they support. I am considering becoming an Independent because this GOP just won’t fight in this disgusting Political World
“The will of the People” was anything but clear in this election, and simply asserting to the contrary doesn’t make it so.
I am ashamed to have voted for this recreant. He was, is, and will be a loser (even with all his filthy lucre). I pray for awful things to befall all traitors and mittens is no exception.
I dout there’s a single person here, who ISN’T ASHAMED that we had to vote for him…
Romney is one slimy SOB. I wish someone would walk up to him and deck him. No one should ever trust anything that this fatherless POS ever says or does. We still have to put up with his **** for four more years and at that point I hope that the good people of Utah will realize their mistake and vote him down overwhelmingly in a primary election. Honestly, if he came to my door, I would run him off my property, and he had better run.
“I never saw any evidence of any kind of substantial voter fraud that would suggest there was any reason to overturn the election” …. Seriously??
Well, imagine this:
You come home to find that the door leading out to your back deck has been smashed, broken and is wide open…. clearly indicating a forced entry. You call the cops. They come out to investigate. And the conversation goes like this:
Cop: “Well, we checked the door of the walk-out basement, there’s no damage. No evidence of forced entry.”
You: “That’s not where they came in. Look at the door on the first floor which goes out to the deck. That’s the one that’s broken.”
Cop: “Like I said, no forced entry through the basement walk-out door.”
You: “Yes, I know that. Check the door which goes out to the deck.”
Cop: “I just told you that there’s no damage to the door.”
You: “In the BASEMENT, right, there’s no damage. Take a look at the door leading out to the deck. Here, I’ll show you..”
Cop: “Sorry, can’t do that. Our hands are tied. We checked the basement.”
You: “All you have to do is walk upstairs and look at the other door! It’s busted wide open!”
Cop: “Stop spreading lies or I’ll arrest you.”
I wouldn’t be shocked, to see cops DO THAT, once biden gets in…
Willard is NOT a republican nor a conservative! He hates President Trump! He will say and do things to disparage republicans and conservatives because of his hatred for Trump!
WHY DOESN’T THE GOP BOOT WILLARD OUT OF THE PARTY? Should have been done long ago!
I honestly wonder, HAS HE EVER been a conservative, or has he ALWAYS been a rino?
I honestly wonder, HAS THE GOP EVER been conservative?
No Mitt, the lose was as clear as mud, and your way of loosing is good? Not so much.
That ******** must only watch Clinton News Network or PMSNBC. Reputable news organizations show the Massive Fraud, along with the forensics of the Hugo Chavez voting machines. Anyone denying this is an Anti-American Socialist. Romney is just a brain dead RINO.
called on Republicans to chart a course based on conservative principles as opposed to Trumpism.
Conservative principles are Trumpism Mutt. But then what would a worthless RINO know about conservative principles.
“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday morning congratulated Biden and recognized the former vice president and Delaware senator as president-elect for the first time.” All this shows is the fact, mitch does not have a clue about the facts, biden is no more president elect than either mitch or I. That title DOES NOT EXIST UNTIL AFTER the Jan 6th acceptance of the electoral votes by congress. What old mitch is doing is the very same “gaslighting” brought to you by the leftist lap dog media, that has been going on since Nov 3rd. We are not allowed enough space here to even start to cover what is wrong in this entire article.
if the cheaters are allowed to win, with this extreme amount of cheating, there won’t be a another election.
LIke i’ve been saying, IF THEIR FRAUD Is allowed to stand, GOOD LUCK EVER again, seeing a republican win ANY election from here on out…
I’m trying to figure what Romney has to gain from grovelling at the feet of dogs?
History, what there may be left of it, will remember him as a fool for hire.
What does Mitt have to gain, you ask? It’s the same thing that Mitch McConnell and the rest of the RINOs have to gain: Nothing. They just want stay where they are. They don’t really want to WIN anything, they’re happy being on the losing side. Being a Republican in the national spotlight is a harrowing ordeal. Winning means that they have to deliver on campaign promises for their constituents. Winning means that they are mercilessly hounded in the press. Losing means they get less **** from the media, and they can meekly go home and tell everyone: “Look, we tried our best, but we don’t control anything”…. and as long as they don’t rock the boat too much, they still get invited to the best parties and let in on all the sweetheart deals to make themselves even richer. It’s the Deep-State Swamp at its finest.
Very sad to see someone turn on their own party in this way – and it looks like it is bitter grapes and jealousy….Does not set well with most. Kinda reminds me of Judas in the Bible
No idea of what possible value Mitt Romney is to the republican party .
The same value that a screen door has on a submarine, apparently..
At least a screen door will keep the FISH OUT!
Willard “Mittens” is a jealous sore loser! Will Utahans wise up and throw him out in 2022? One can only hope!
MITTENS hopefully will be eliminated at the next election cycle. The people of Utah, from what I hear, are pretty disgusted (being nice) with this pos.
Romney, the liberal DEMOCRAT, is in denial of the Truth yet again. “The will of the people” is clearly to re-elect Trump. It was the lying scheming corrupt election officials who falsified the results of the presidential election.
Lest there be any misunderstanding of the facts; Trump won and Biden lost (again).
Any and all who tell an opposing story are either uninformed or a deliberate liar.
OR they were part of the group THAT STOLE the election from us!
#Mitt(D)Romney has no goal other than to wreck his own party and parrot #libgressive causes.