?? Mitt Romney on Friday announced his long-expected Senate bid in his adopted state of Utah with a low-key rollout intended to duck roiling Republican divisions and avoid signaling that he will play the role of foil to President Donald Trump. “Utah’s economic and political success is a model for our nation,” Romney said in […]
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Feds: Sentence for Michael Liberty should be example for political donors
PORTLAND — Federal prosecutors will recommend that prominent developer and entrepreneur Michael Liberty serve six months in jail or under home arrest for illegally masking $22,500 donations to a presidential campaign. Liberty, 56, earlier this year pleaded guilty to making $22,500 in illegal campaign contributions, which court documents indicate benefited Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s […]
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Mitt Romney emerges from dinner with Donald Trump full of frog legs & praise
They talked for more than two hours, they laughed, they munched on carefully prepared frog legs, and afterward, Mitt Romney, once one of Donald Trump’s harshest critics, emerged a changed man. “I had a wonderful evening with President-elect Trump,” the former Massachusetts governor declared to the press after a final course of chocolate cake. “We […]
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Donald Trump summons Mitt Romney for 2nd look as staffers squabble
NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s hunt for a secretary of state is veering into dramatic terrain, with the president-elect summoning Mitt Romney back for a second look as a top aide leads a public pressure campaign against the pick. Trump has a follow-up meeting Tuesday with the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, who has become a […]
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Mitt Romney says Donald Trump ‘playing the American public for suckers’
Mitt Romney, the Republican Party’s most recent presidential nominee, took the unusual step of criticizing the odds-on favorite to be the party’s next nominee in a blistering speech that labeled Donald Trump a fraud who is playing the American public for suckers. “Let me put it plainly, if we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our […]
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Do Trump and Carson inspire enough GOP panic to draft Mitt Romney?
Less than three months before the kickoff Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them. Party leaders and donors fear that nominating either man would have negative ramifications for the GOP ticket […]
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Romney says he won’t run for president in 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a three-week flirtation with another run for president, Mitt Romney said definitively on Friday that he will not seek the White House in 2016. The Republican Party’s 2012 nominee plans to tell supporters about his plans to pass on another national campaign during a conference call. He first let his staff […]