Mitt Romney may vote Libertarian, as GOP criticism of Trump deepens

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Mitt Romney may vote Libertarian, as GOP criticism of Trump deepens

Move by former Republican presidential nominee is a stark example
of the GOP establishment’s unwillingness to fully accept Trump at its
standard-bearer

Nicky Woolf in San Francisco
Saturday 11 June 2016 02.09 BST

The former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has said he will consider voting for the Libertarian party in the presidential election instead of Donald Trump, in a stark example of how far the GOP establishment is from accepting the billionaire leading its bid for the White House.

Romney, who lost to Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election, even said that the decision to vote against his party would be “very easy” if Bill Weld, another former Massachusetts governor who has fundraised for Romney, was at the top of the Libertarian ticket.

“If Bill Weld were at the top of the ticket, it would be very easy for me to vote for Bill Weld for president,” Romney told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Friday. The Libertarian nominee is currently former Republican governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson, with Weld as his vice-presidential pick.

Romney, who is hosting his annual ideas retreat in Utah, where speaker of the house Paul Ryan and Republican national committee chair Reince Priebus among the attendees, added that he was going to try to “get to know Gary Johnson better and see if he’s someone who I could end up voting for. That’s something which I’ll evaluate over the coming weeks and months”.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/10/donald-trump-mitt-romney-vote-libertarian-gop-split

[Lochloosa]

1. And 47% of people could give a shit.

[braddy]

2. Weld was Romney's mentor and the man he most identifies with politically.

Romney voted for Tsongas in the primary of 1992 and registered republican in October of 1993.