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When Andrew Cilek entered a Lutheran church in Minnesota to cast his vote during the 2010 election, he was surprised when the poll worker told him he couldn't vote because he was wearing a T-shirt with the emblem of a local tea party group, and had a button asking for poll workers to check his I.D. He kept pressing to be allowed in, and eventually the media showed up to cover the test of wills. He was finally allowed to cast his ballot, but poll workers took down his name and information.
The Republican State Committee's endorsement of U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta for the U.S. Senate seat held by Bob Casey may thin the GOP field of candidates, a public affairs professor said last week. "Barletta is the odds-on favorite to win the primary," said G. Terry Madonna, a professor at Franklin & Marshall College.
Even if Mitt Romney becomes the next United States Senator from Utah, his road to November 6 will be paved with covfefe. If Romney does win, it will be an indictment of the gullibility of the Utah electorate, an embarrassing example of a state that will vote for any hack with an after his name.
Remember Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and 2012 Republican presidential candidate who lost decisively to Barack Obama by roughly five million votes ? The man who, after getting whipped in that campaign, disappeared for a while in a sort of self-imposed exile to collect his thoughts and start a new life as a full-time grandfather and part-time philanthropist? It turns out that Romney the career politician is not content to sit on the couch in one of his estates for the rest of his life. Last week, in what will be his fifth political campaign in 23 years, Romney announced his bid to be Utah's next United States senator.
The Salt Lake Tribune With Seven Peaks in the background, former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, his granddaughter Allie, center, and wife Ann collect signatures along 640 West in Orem, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018. Hey Mitt, as you've already been given the Senate seat for Utah, can you do one thing for a Democrat fellow Utahn? Live up to your hype and represent us all as Americans first.
A busy Friday of news included Mitt Romney, as expected, dropping this video announcing his Senate candidacy in Utah. It's a reminder that F. Scott Fitzgerald didn't write the book on life after presidential politics - there are second acts.
President Donald Trump on Monday night threw his full support behind Mitt Romney's bid to be the next U.S. senator from Utah , writing on Twitter that he would be a "worthy successor" to retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. The endorsement is significant because Trump had previously encouraged Hatch to seek another term, and Romney had been among the most vocal Republican critics of Trump's presidential aspirations, once calling him "a phony" and "a fraud."
President Donald Trump has apparently endorsed one-time adversary and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney as Romney runs for Senate in Utah to replace Sen. Orrin Hatch, who is retiring. . @MittRomney has announced he is running for the Senate from the wonderful State of Utah.
Willard "Mitt" Romney was able to capture the Republican nomination in 2012 in part bu running to the furthest right of the major candidates on immigration. He proudly accepted the endorsement of Donald J. Trump, the New York City real estate grifter and reality TV star who became a major figure in the Republican Party by popularizing a racist conspiracy theory about Barack Obama.
Mitt Romney is running for Senate in such a strong position that his announcement video didn't even mention his name. He didn't even feel the need to say "I'm Mitt Romney."
Mitt Romney's extensive resume has many Republicans looking to him to take on a role in the Senate as a political and moral counterweight to a president many in the GOP see as divisive and undignified. The 2012 GOP nominee for president announced Friday he is running for the Utah Senate seat being vacated by GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch.
John and Steve have written good posts on the indictment against Internet Research Agency et al. handed up by the grand jury in the Special Counsel investigation yesterday. The government has posted the indictment here .
Former presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is running for a Utah Senate seat, officially launching his political comeback attempt Friday by praising his adopted home state as a model for an acrimonious national government in Washington. Having been one of the Republican Party's fiercest internal critics of President Donald Trump, Romney didn't mention the administration or Trump himself in a campaign announcement posted online.
Former Massachusetts Governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is interviewed at the Silicon Slopes Tech Conference on January 19, 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The former presidential nominee made his campaign official Friday in an online video after a delaying his launch following a deadly shooting at a Florida high school.
Romney, 70, was the Republican Party's presidential standard-bearer in 2012, eventually losing the general election to then-President Obama. With Romney's potential arrival in Washington comes notably real tension between him and the man now occupying the Oval Office: President Donald Trump.
Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney will announce Thursday that he's running for the Utah Senate seat held by retiring Orrin Hatch. The former Republican presidential candidate will release an online video Thursday announcing he's running for the seat.
Mitt Romney is preparing to announce a bid for Utah's Senate seat held by retiring Orrin Hatch, a position some hope the 2012 GOP presidential nominee will use to continue his biting criticism of President Donald Trump. Romney, who once called Trump "a phony" who was unfit for office, is not expected to address the president in an announcement video he has prepared for release online, according to people with direct knowledge of his plans.
In this Jan. 19, 2018,, file photo, former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney waves after speaking about the tech sector during an industry conference, in Salt Lake City. Romney plans to announce Utah Senate campaign Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018.
With the first primaries of the 2018 elections less than a month away, you might expect federal officials to be wrapping up efforts to safeguard the vote against expected Russian interference. Federal efforts to help states button down elections systems have crawled, hamstrung in part by wariness of federal meddling.