Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) endorsed Mitt Romney in an interview with the Salt Lake City Tribune, saying, “I think we would be well-advised as Republicans to start getting behind our eventual nominee.” Lee came into office in 2010 riding the Tea Party wave and railing against Romney-backed policies like TARP.
The DNC thought the irony was enough to issue a statement: “Just two years after basing his insurgent campaign for Senate against Republican Senator Bennett’s vote for TARP, which he called the ‘largest redistribution of wealth ever encapsulated in one piece of legislation,’ Senator Mike Lee tomorrow is endorsing the TARP-supporting Mitt Romney for president.”
