Report: Mitt Romney Considering 2018 Senate Run For Hatch’s Seat

Mitt Romney leaves the funeral services for former U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett in Salt Lake City Saturday, May 14, 2016. (Scott Sommerdorf/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is considering running for Senate in 2018, according to a report published Thursday by the Atlantic.

Romney discussed the possibility of a run for Sen. Orrin Hatch’s (R-UT) seat with high-level Republicans in Washington and Utah, according to the report, which cited six unnamed sources familiar with the situation.

In an interview last week with the National Journal, Hatch said that he would consider retiring if Romney ran for his seat.

“If I could get a really outstanding person to run for my position, I might very well consider it,” he said. “Mitt Romney would be perfect.”

Romney last made a bid for government office in December 2016, when he was under consideration by then President-elect Donald Trump for secretary of state.

During the presidential campaign, Romney called Trump a “fraud” and a “phony.”

He reportedly refused to apologize for those remarks to Trump, who in 2016 claimed that Romney “would’ve dropped to his knees” for Trump’s endorsement in the previous election.

Trump reportedly began to look elsewhere after Romney refused to back down, and ultimately nominated Rex Tillerson to the post.

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  1. Hang it up, Mittens. It’s enough already.

  2. Avatar for pine pine says:

    “Report: Mitt Romney Considering 2018 Senate Run For Hatch’s Seat”

    "There should be fireworks, at least, when a dream dies.

    Kirby Larson"
  3. I guess being a mormon makes you a resident of Utah, in the same way that being Jewish makes you a citizen of Israel…

  4. Another rich ego needing TLC at public expense.

  5. All three of these people would be better than Hatch…yes, even Mitt. They are all conservatives that are relatively sane and interested in the public good, and have shown a willingness to set aside conservative policy when it’s shown to be inadequate. In the past, they would have been the usual conservative politician, which is a dying breed today.

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