Utah Gov. on Romney's Trump Endorsement Flip: 'Things Have Changed'
'That’s past,' Gov. Gary Herbert says of Mitt Romney’s past comments distancing himself from Trump.
By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE February 24, 2018
Utah Governor Gary Herbert supports the talk he’s heard of Mitt Romney going right into Senate leadership if he wins a seat in November.
“I think there’s an opportunity for him to help galvanize, I think there’s the opportunity for him to bring some more unification,” said Herbert, speaking on Friday at POLITICO's State Solutions event that’s available as the latest episode of POLITICO’s Off Message podcast.
Herbert said he’s not bothered by Romney running for senate in Utah despite having grown up in Michigan and lived most of his life in Massachusetts, where he was governor, and then New Hampshire—Romney, notes Herbert, has deep ancestral roots in the Beehive State.
Nor is Herbert bothered by Romney’s turnaround in accepting President Donald Trump’s endorsement for his Senate run. In March 2016, Romney tweeted, “If Trump had said 4 years ago the things he says today about the KKK, Muslims, Mexicans, disabled, I would NOT have accepted his endorsement.”
“Things have changed,” Herbert said, while acknowledging that the biggest thing to change is that Romney is now a candidate again. “That’s past. That’s history, and rather than regurgitate the differences, let’s find out where we’re similar.”
Herbert said he’s not sure if Romney will run for president again.
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