Mitt Romney, One of Few Moderate Republicans, Will Not Seek Re-Election to the Senate

The 2012 Republican presidential nominee told his biographer that ‘a very large portion’ of the GOP does not ‘believe in the Constitution.’

AP/J. Scott Applewhite, file
Senator Romney, who is retiring, at the Capitol, March 16, 2022. AP/J. Scott Applewhite, file

One of the few remaining moderate Republicans in American politics, Senator Romney, has announced that he will not seek re-election to the Senate in 2024. In doing so, he also called on Presidents Biden and Trump to step off the stage. 

In a nearly three-minute video posted Tuesday to his government account on X, Mr. Romney said, “at the end of another term, I’d be in my mid-80s. Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders. They’re the ones that need to make the decisions that will shape the world they will be living in.”

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