SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney plans to announce on Feb. 15 if he’ll run for the Utah Senate seat held by Orrin Hatch.
Romney said in a Twitter post Thursday that he’s looking forward to the announcement. The post included a link to his website, which no longer includes references to his 2012 presidential campaign and quotes from his concession speech. Instead, it offers visitors a form to sign up and “Join Team Mitt.”
Looking forward to making an announcement on February 15th about the Utah Senate race. https://t.co/OLXWZWREEK
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) February 1, 2018
Romney’s been considered a top candidate for the Senate seat after longtime Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch announced in January that he would not seek another term.
In recent months, Romney has made more public appearances around the state but has declined to say if he’ll run for Hatch’s seat.
Hatch, who has served more than four decades in the Senate, is one of the longest-serving senators in U.S. history and began floating Romney’s name as his potential successor last year.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor who moved to Utah after losing the presidential election, is expected to easily win the Senate seat if he chooses to seek it.
The 70-year-old Mormon is noted in Utah for turning around the scandal-plagued 2002 Winter Olympics and has wide respect from the state’s Mormon-majority population.
Stop attention whoring, we all know you’re going to run, just announce it already, instead of announcing that you’re going to announce it.
Golly-gee-whiz Mittens. That’ll be swell. I can hardly wait for the big announcement. The trees are finally the right height, so this may be your time.
Must be another white horse prophesy coming to him in a dream that will help him point the way.
There scary thing is, Mittens will appear almost sorta kinda not totally insane, compared to the rest of the GOP.
Compared to Hatch it’ll be an improvement, but not by much.
Trump is going to have the time of his life tooling this clown around.