President Donald Trump acknowledged in a Monday evening Twitter post that he supported and counseled Mitt Romney for his trot for a Senate seat.
Trump tweet: .@MittRomney has presented he’s working for the Senate from the unbelievable Recount of Utah. He’ll manufacture a mountainous Senator and correct successor to @OrrinHatch, and has my corpulent toughen and endorsement!
Romney, who presented he would trot for Senate in Utah on Friday, expressed his gratitude for the endorsement.
Romney tweet: Thank you Mr. President for the toughen. I hope that over the route of the campaign I also invent the toughen and endorsement of the opposite folks of Utah.
That acceptance itself became once incongruous with what Romney had acknowledged in 2016 about Trump’s endorsement from the prior presidential election.
Romney tweet: If Trump had acknowledged four years ago the issues he says at the moment about the KKK, Muslims, Mexicans, disabled, I would NOT have accredited his endorsement
The 2012 Republican presidential nominee is combating criticism that he’s an outsider for the Senate seat — he talked about Utah early and most frequently in a video message asserting his candidacy.
« I’ve made up our minds to trot for United States Senate on account of I imagine I’m able to assist bring Utah’s values and Utah’s classes to Washington, » he acknowledged. « Utah is a greater mannequin for Washington than Washington is for Utah. »
Romney is aiming to interchange Eighty three-yr-outdated Sen. Orrin Hatch in November’s election. The longtime senator presented his retirement in January at the same time as Trump pushed him to trot again.
Romney closely criticized then-candidate Trump in a 2016 speech, calling him a « phony » and a « fraud. » He warned that Trump would trigger financial instability and endanger Americans out of the country.
Later, Romney unsuccessfully interviewed to be Trump’s secretary of Recount. Since then, he has publicly rebuked Trump when he supported Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate accused of sexually abusing younger other folks, and when the president reportedly wondered why the U.S. wanted immigrants from « s—gap » African worldwide locations.
For his fragment, Trump has also been serious of Romney, announcing previously that he « choked love a dog » accurate during the 2012 trot for the White Dwelling, and that he’s « a blended up man who doesn’t have a clue. »
Some of Trump’s criticism of Romney:
Trump tweet: Mitt Romney had his likelihood to beat a failed president but he choked love a dog. Now he calls me racist-but I’m least racist particular person there is
Trump tweet: Mitt Romney is a blended up man who doesn’t have a clue. No shock he misplaced!
Trump tweet: Failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the one who « choked » and allow us to all down, is now endorsing Lyin’ Ted Cruz. Here is gorgeous for me!
Trump tweet: Don’t reward Mitt Romney, who allow us to all down in the final presidential bustle, by vote casting for Kasich (who voted for NAFTA, open borders etc.).
Trump tweet: .@MittRomney became once a catastrophe candidate who had no guts and choked! Romney is a complete shaggy dog story, and all people knows it!
Trump tweet: Mitt Romney, who became once one in every of the dumbest and worst candidates in the historical past of Republican politics, is now pushing me on tax returns. Dope!
If he wins the seat and criticizes Trump whereas slightly than job, Romney would tag a stark shift from Hatch. Hatch has heaped praise on the president in contemporary months, calling him a « heck of a leader » after the GOP passed its tax thought in December. Trump reportedly begged the Eighty three-yr outdated Hatch to trot for re-election but any other time.
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—CNBC’s Jacob Pramuk contributed to this story.
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