Sen. Mitt Romney, other Utah leaders not ready to endorse President Donald Trump

[TexasTowelie]

SALT LAKE CITY — Ask a Republican elected official in Utah if they're endorsing a second term for the sitting president of their own party and the answer should be obvious, shouldn't it?

Apparently not if the president running for re-election is Donald Trump.

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, answered that question from CNN's Jake Tapper recently by joking he wasn't ready to say yet if he's going to write in the name of his wife, Ann, in the 2020 presidential election, as he did in 2016.

"We'll have to see how she does," Romney said with a laugh.

But when pressed about backing Trump, a candidate he criticized during the 2016 presidential race as a phony and a fraud, Utah's most prominent politician had little comment.

Read more: https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900072438/sen-mitt-romney-other-utah-leaders-not-ready-to-endorse-president-donald-trump.html

[Iliyah]

1. More BS.

Of course they do. Purity plus loyalty all the way for the GOP not the USA.

[RainCaster]

2. Romney is holding out for a plum cabinet appointment

[JDC]

3. What a joke. He is the new Susan Colins

[Marie Marie]

4. Yet. They will surely come around to kissing his ass.