Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) told reporters that he didn’t vote for President Donald Trump’s reelection, but he didn’t reveal who received his vote.
Romney was the only Republican in the Senate to vote in favor of Trump’s removal from office over a charge of abuse of power during his impeachment trial early this year.
The former GOP nominee for president has had an up-and-down relationship with Trump over the years. While Trump endorsed Romney for president in 2012, Romney said in 2018 that he wrote in his wife Ann’s name in 2016.
Romney was reportedly interested in becoming Trump’s secretary of state after Trump’s victory in 2016. The two were seen at a dinner in New York’s Jean-Georges restaurant.
Two years later, Romney sought Trump’s endorsement and received it when he ran for a Senate seat in Utah.
This month, Romney issued a statement in which he criticized Trump’s behavior, saying it was part of a larger, more toxic culture in American politics.
He added that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “tears up the president’s State of the Union speech on national television,” while former ESPN pundit “Keith Olbermann calls the president a ’terrorist.' Media on the left and right amplify all of it.”
Romney last month announced he would vote to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, over the objections from Democrats. Trump nominated Barrett to the nation’s highest court in September following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
On Oct. 15, Romney reaffirmed he would vote to confirm her to the Supreme Court.
Because of his support for Barrett, Trump says he is “no longer angry” with Romney.
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