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Thanks for signing up! But, they contend, it shouldn't be difficult for a senator to say it's wrong for a president to ask foreign countries to interfere in American elections. As for impeachment, the advisers said, Romney is grappling with his concern that the entire process is bad for the country and will end up being even more divisive no matter the outcome, a worry that he shares with his wife, Ann Romney. It's too early to say where he will end up on the question of removing the president from office, other than that his current position he says he's never spoken about impeachment would allow for him to go in either direction.
None of that means Romney's recent criticism of the president — including a stern Senate floor repudiation of Trump's Syria policy this month — has been ignored in Washington. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. In Utah, many of the more than two dozen Republican voters interviewed by NBC News last week also expressed disapproval at Romney's digs at Trump and his generally receptive approach to the House investigation into the administration's Ukraine affair.
About Romney's shots at Trump, most had harsh words for their junior senator, with many accusing him of harboring feelings of resentment and envy stemming from his failed bid and the Trump State Department saga. I think they agree on like 80 percent of policy issues. He's been small. Diane Pankratz, a year-old retiree from Tooele County in the northwest corner of the state, said, "Mitt is a good-hearted person.
I just don't think he's very conservative. He's leaning toward the Democratic side on this, and I guess I don't understand why. But then last week, the reason for the bad vibes about Romney became clear. You see, he's been zipping across the country using President Obama's " You didn't build that " quote out of context for an analogy about a student who worked hard in school and made the honor roll. He used it again when he introduced his running mate, Paul Ryan last weekend.
Frum: Romney does Obama a huge favor. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business — you didn't build that. Romney spins it to make it sound as if the president is totally discrediting an individual's hard work, summing it up this way.
This analogy epitomizes what makes Romney so unlikeable to so many people, regardless of party, race, gender or socioeconomic status. In his mind, the world is full of bus drivers and honor roll students and the two are independent of each other, which is why he can characterize President Obama's desire to help those less fortunate as creating a "culture of dependence.
Mitt Romney. No surprise there either even though he is a Republican. Most polls have shown the state's junior senator to have a consistent Democratic following given his votes to remove former President Donald Trump from office and positions on other issues. Safe to say many Republicans in Utah don't care for Romney. It also shows Utahns overall give neither senator high marks for his job performance. Not ringing endorsements of two Republican senators in a red state. That could make reelection tough if he were up in That's up there, too, but more manageable as he seeks a third term next year.
And Utahns seem to have made up their minds more about Romney than Lee. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3. Polling numbers for Lee and Romney from last year and earlier this year have remained consistent.
Not much has changed in the eyes of voters regardless of what the senators have said or done or who occupies the White House. In January, just as President Joe Biden took office, the approval and disapproval ratings for both senators were roughly the same as they are in the new poll. Moderate and independent voters also are more likely to favor Romney than Lee, the poll shows.
Lee has always been popular with the Republican base in Utah. GOP state delegates, who tend to be more conservative than voters at large in the state, dumped moderate Sen. Bob Bennett in favor of Lee in Ten years later, delegates at the Republican Party state convention again cheered Lee. They booed Romney , who has said he now only represents a small slice of his party.
He has expressed dismay about the direction of the GOP since at least when Trump became its presidential nominee. Delegates in forced Romney into a primary with conservative candidates, and would probably do so again if he runs for another term. Both Romney and Lee have criticized Democrats and the Biden administration, most recently on their proposal to spend trillions of dollars on expanding social programs and a presidential order to enlarge two national monument boundaries in Utah.
Image and style also might have something to do with Utahns not fully embracing the two senators. Lee is often viewed as a rigid obstructionist who is unwilling to compromise, though he teams up with progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
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