Senator Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said in an interview on Tuesday that if former President Trump ran again in 2024, he would likely win the Republican nomination.
“He has by far the biggest voice and a big impact on my party,” Romney told the New York Times DealBook. “I don’t know if he plans to run in 2024 or not, but if he does, I’m sure he will win the nomination.”
Romney noted that he is not always good at making predictions and “a lot can happen between now and 2024”, but he said in recent polls comparing Trump to other potential Republican candidates, “he won by a landslide.”
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He said that if Trump runs again, he would support a candidate who “represents more of the small wing of the party I represent”.
He added that he did not vote for Trump in the past and does not plan to do so in the future.
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Shortly after the November election, Romney told Meet the Press: “I believe that the vast majority of people who voted for Donald Trump want to ensure that his principles and policies are followed. So yes, he is not disappearing at all. He is the 900 pound Gorilla when it comes to the Republican Party. “
The Utah senator is one of Trump’s most vocal critics in the party and was the only Republican senator to vote to condemn Trump on both impeachments.
Trump will make his first major speech since leaving office at the CPAC conservative conference this weekend and has yet to say whether he plans to run in 2024.
During his speech, Trump plans to claim his place as the “likely candidate for 2024”, and advisers are expected to meet with him at Mar-a-Lago this week to help him decide his next political move, Axios reported, citing sources.
“There is no doubt that he will play a central role in politics for a long time,” Eric Trump told Fox & Friends this week. He added that there are “75, 80 million people who would follow” their father “to the end of the Earth” and would love him because “they love what he represents”.
Trump is also likely to support the primary opponents of Republicans who voted to impeach him, he said.
Some critics of Trump’s impeachment said that Democrats mainly wanted to condemn Trump and prevent him from running for office again because they didn’t want to run against someone who received more than 74 million votes. President Biden received more than 81 million votes, making Biden and Trump the two biggest vote winners in the history of the U.S. presidential election.
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Eric Trump said he thinks his father is the “modern republican party” that has resurrected an old man who was unable to win. “I think my dad showed the Republican Party how to win again,” he said.