Utah Republicans aren’t as keen on Mitt Romney as he thought they were.
The former Massachusetts governor failed to secure the Utah Senate nomination over the weekend. He’ll have to compete in the upcoming primary now if he still wants the seat.
Utah state lawmaker Mike Kennedy won the GOP’s vote instead. 51% of delegates chose Kennedy while 49 chose Romney.
“I’m tired… You know what I’m really tired of? I’m tired of business as usual in Washington, DC. If you want things to change, you need to vote for change,” Kennedy said during his speech.
Romney doesn’t exactly represent change. He’s tired old representative of the Republican elite, a symbol of everything that voters shied away from when they chose Donald Trump.
Even Romney knows that he represents the establishment.
“Some people I’ve spoken with have said this is a David vs. Goliath race, but they’re wrong,” he said.
“I’m not Goliath. Washington, DC, is Goliath.”
Kennedy played around with the same metaphor.
“I started with David and Goliath, but not for the reason you might think,” he said.
“In this battle, you are David, firm in your fight for liberty. Goliath is Washington DC — intimidating but beatable. And I, I am your stone ready to be flung at the foes of liberty who seek to oppress us.”
Romney, who ran for president against Barack Obama in 2012 and lost miserably, hasn’t been politically relevant for years. He tried setting himself up as an anti-Trump Republican but those efforts faded when he realized that voters love Trump.
Now he’s trying to wriggle back into Washington through the Senate. Despite his embarrassing loss over the weekend, he still has a good chance of securing the nomination. Utah voters like him more than the rest of the country does.
Kennedy’s team believes that Romney will lose.
(Source: New York Post)