If Mitt runs for re-election in 2024, Trump needs to endorse his primary opponent.
If Mitt runs for re-election in 2024, Trump needs to endorse a third party opponent. What’s good for the goose...
“If Mitt runs for re-election in 2024, Trump needs to endorse a third party opponent. What’s good for the goose...”
If Mitt still has presidential ambitions he needs to run in 2020 due to his advancing age (he will be 73 in 2020 and 74 in the first year of the next presidential term). If Trump is impeached, or resigns under threat of impeachment, Romney would likely be the GOP establishment choice over Pence.
Watch Romney. He may be maneuvering for the big prize. The press will support him, like they did McCain, until he wins the nomination. Then they will engage in nuclear warfare to destroy him. If Trump is impeached, and Romney is the nominee, the GOP base will stay home on Election Day, giving the Dems an electoral vote landslide and control of both houses of Congress.
Romney's conduct after becoming senator has revealed him to be a sleazy back-stabbing Judas in the political arena. No need for a third party candidate. Plenty of Mormons who will primary Romney if Trump supports Romney's opponent. Romney lost the state party activist convention poll, despite Trump's endorsement. With Trump's thumbs-down, he'd lose the primary outright:
| State Republican Convention results, 2018 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | First ballot | Pct. | Second ballot | Pct. |
| Mike Kennedy | 1,354 | 40.69% | 1,642 | 50.88% |
| Mitt Romney | 1,539 | 46.24% | 1,585 | 49.12% |
| Loy Brunson | 4 | 0.12% | Eliminated | |
| Alicia Colvin | 29 | 0.87% | Eliminated | |
| Stoney Fonua | 7 | 0.21% | Eliminated | |
| Chris Forbush | 0 | 0% | Eliminated | |
| Timothy Jiminez | 100 | 3.01% | Eliminated | |
| Joshua Lee | 2 | 0.06% | Eliminated | |
| Larry Meyers | 163 | 4.90% | Eliminated | |
| Gayle Painter | 0 | 0% | Eliminated | |
| Samuel Parker | 122 | 3.67% | Eliminated | |
| Total | 3,328 | 100.00% | 3,227 | 100.00% |
IMO, Trump should have endorsed Mike Kennedy. If he had, we wouldn't have to put up with Romney's BS from the perch of a Senate seat today. I have little doubt Kennedy would be nothing like the venomous viper Romney has proven to be.