Romney Says Trump Would Win 2024 GOP Nomination If He Runs

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

(Bloomberg) -- Republican Mitt Romney said Donald Trump likely would win the GOP presidential nomination if he decided to run again in 2024.

The Utah senator, the only Republican who voted to convict Trump in both of his impeachment trials, said he expects the former president will continue to play a big role in the Republican Party even though he was voted out of office.

“He has by far the largest voice and a big impact in my party,” Romney said at a New York Times DealBook virtual event on Tuesday. “I don’t know if he’s planning to run in 2024 or not, but if he does, I’m pretty sure he would win the nomination.”

The two wings of the GOP -- traditionalists like Romney and Trump loyalists -- are struggling over the party’s future. Trump has continued to exert a strong hold on Republican voters. A plurality of them, 46%, said they would abandon the GOP and join a Trump-led party if he were to create one, according to a USA Today/Suffolk poll conducted last week.

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[Generic Brad]

1. How will Trump hold rallies in prison?

If not prison, he’ll spend the majority of the next few years in one court or another. He won’t have the time or resources to run.

[Initech]

5. Maybe he can hold MAGA rallies in prison like the Blues Brothers?

A lot of his followers will probably be in the audience too.

[elleng]

2. 'The two wings of the GOP -- traditionalists like Romney and Trump loyalists -- are struggling over

-- are struggling over the party’s future,' and romney's giving it up now.

[iemitsu]

4. Sounds like the struggle is over.

[Bucky]

8. Problem with the "2 wings" metaphor is it sounds like they're equal sized

But the GOP is a lopsided bird

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Surprising comment. Trump now has dirt on you, too, Mitt?

Or are you sending a wake-up call for whatever sane never-Trumpers exist in this carcass of a political party?

[Bucky]

9. Maybe he's just complaining

Republicans are good at whining, so I'm sure they have to practice a lot

[JHB]

6. Well, Mittens, now you have to do the hard part. Save your party...

...by torpedoing it. Rally the so-called "traditionalists" to fight and block the Trumpanzees.

Yes, that will effectively cede control of the government to the Democrats for the foreseeable future, but is that really such a bad thing? Can you admit that we're not a pack of bolsheviks? That even if we won't govern the country the way you'd prefer, we're a hell of a lot better for the nation than your party in its current diseased state?

[Iliyah]

7. Not going to happen . . .

[dhill926]

10. 3 years is a LONG time in politics....

[getagrip_already]

15. 3 years till the election, not the campaign.....

We are at most a year from a campaign kicking in. And with trump, it will probably be sooner.

This is a fund and ego raising crusade for him. Winning isn't his goal. Revenge and profit are.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

11. No Mitt

In 10 days Trump will be President.

[dweller]

12. Title says would win

Mittens says likely would, and pretty sure would ...

🤔

✌🏻

[Iliyah]

14. Nope ...

republicans will direct the block of POCs voters, not white and paper ballots.

1960.

[Thekaspervote]

13. I imagine there won't be primaries, they will just give him the nomination just as in 2020

[90-percent]

16. just wondering

just wondering if mitt woke up to a horse head on his bedpost?


-90% jimmy

[FlyingPiggy]

17. And THAT is why I can't understand why McConnell wouldn't just

Round up the senators to indict trump at the senate impeachment hearings. Just gets me so mad.

[no_hypocrisy]

18. Are big donors going to give Trump $$$$ if he shoves it in his pocket instead into the campaign?

[ChoppinBroccoli]

19. First Of All, The CPAC Poll Is ALWAYS Wrong..........

.............and second, how is Trump going to win the nomination FROM PRISON?

I predict that by the time 2024 rolls around, the Trump name is going to be so toxic that all the frontrunners for the Republican nomination will spend the majority of their airtime telling people how NOT like Trump they are, and how they never really liked the guy.

Anyway, back to the CPAC poll. I remember that in 2009, the CPAC poll declared that Sarah Palin would win the 2012 Republican nomination in a landslide. And in 2013, the CPAC poll showed that Jeb Bush would win the 2016 nomination. The people who participate in the CPAC poll are notoriously stupid and short-sighted. And a lot can happen in 3 years.

Quite frankly, if Trump isn't either dead or in prison in 2024, I'll be shocked.

[Progressive Jones]

20. One way, or another, he will be prevented from running. nt

[Azathoth]

21. He might win, but it would be a bloodbath

Up-and-coming psychos like Hawley aren't going to politely step back and wait eight more years for their shot at running. Even the slightly-less-psychos like Haley are slowly beginning to signal they won't sit on their hands for eight more years.

Trump is damaged enough that if he runs, he will face a circular firing squad.