Failed Republican presidential nominee and leader of the Never Trump movement Mitt Romney just refuses to go away – much like another sore-loser named Hillary Clinton.
Romney is best remembered for blowing a winnable 2012 election that would have spared the nation from four more years of Barack Obama – the worst four in terms of fomenting racial animosity – but he was unable to close the deal.
In 2016 Mitt could have had another bite at the apple but like the dickless wonder what he always has been, he chose to not enter the crowded field of seventeen Republican candidates which an iconoclastic outsider named Donald Trump made mincemeat out of.
Once Trump had secured the nomination, Romney went ape and joined up with swine like William Kristol and the creepy former spook Evan McMullin to sink his nomination – it didn’t work and Romney was once again left to slink off like a whipped dog.
Trump did dangle the Secretary of State gig in front of Romney but it was a cruel trick and payback against Mitt for his troublemaking.
Now the Mittster is ready to launch a bid for the U.S. Senate in 2018 but Trump is reportedly working to undermine his efforts. Romney has made no secret that he only wants the job to have a platform against Trump and the POTUS is not a stupid man.
Trump moves to block Romney from the Senate https://t.co/EyD17CUE8Y pic.twitter.com/1ST6WYcKx2
— POLITICO (@politico) December 4, 2017
Via Politico “Trump moves to block Romney from the Senate”:
The president is working hard to persuade 83-year-old Sen. Orrin Hatch to run for reelection, and Mitt isn’t happy about it, people close to him say.
Donald Trump is going all out to persuade seven-term Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch to seek reelection — a push aimed in no small part at keeping the president’s longtime nemesis, Mitt Romney, out of the Senate.
Romney has been preparing to run for Hatch’s seat on the long-held assumption that the 83-year-old would retire. Yet Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in history, is now refusing to rule out another campaign — a circumstance Romney’s infuriated inner circle blames squarely on the president. Their suspicions are warranted: Trump has sounded off to friends about how he doesn’t like the idea of a Senator Romney.
The president’s mostly behind-the-scenes campaign to sway Hatch will burst into public view on Monday, when he arrives in Salt Lake City to hold a well-choreographed event designed to showcase his affection for the powerful Senate Finance Committee chairman.
Trump’s appearance is ostensibly official in purpose: He will announce his decision to reduce the size of Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand-Staircase Escalante national monuments, a cause that Hatch has championed. But it’s also undeniably political: To use the trappings of presidential power to get a veteran lawmaker to rethink his long anticipated plans to leave the Senate.
Trump is slated to ride with Hatch both ways on Air Force One — a total of roughly nine hours round-trip. After descending from the plane together, the two will meet with Mormon leaders and then head to the state capitol for the signing of the executive order, according to three White House officials. Hatch will introduce Trump, who in turn is expected to lavish praise on the senator. After the order is signed, Hatch is expected to receive the president’s pen.
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Yet people close to Romney are convinced that Trump’s main motivation is to keep the 2012 GOP presidential nominee out of the Senate. Romney himself has expressed frustration with the ongoing uncertainty about Hatch’s plans, said three Republicans who’ve spoken with him recently. The former Massachusetts governor has pointed out that it was Hatch who urged him to consider running in the first place, but now appears to be wavering on whether to step aside.
Indeed, there’s widespread concern within the White House that Romney in the Senate could make Trump’s life difficult. During the 2016 campaign, the former Massachusetts governor emerged as the de-facto leader of the GOP establishment’s “Never Trump” campaign, delivering a nationally-watched speech in which he blasted candidate Trump as a “phony, a fraud” and implored the party to stop him.
It would greatly behoove Trump to keep Romney out of the Senate swamp where he would immediately join with the Democrats and other RINOs in scheming for Trump’s impeachment and removal from office over bogus charges.
He’s punked Mitt before and would probably take great joy in doing it again.
(By Donn Martin and first reported by DownTrend) https://downtrend.com/donn-marten/trump-reportedly-trying-to-stomp-on-mitt-romneys-senate-bid (December 5, 2017)
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