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Will Mitt Romney be remembered as a ‘good Republican’?

Will Mitt Romney be remembered as a ‘good Republican’?

Politics Weekly America vor 2 Jahren

Senator Mitt Romney of Utah announced he was retiring in September, and this week his biography hits the shelves, detailing his life in politics and how he has fallen out of love with the Republican party of today. Jonathan Freedland talks to McKay Coppin

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Republican Mike Johnson of Louisiana became the 56th speaker of the
House of Representatives on Tuesday. Democrats immediately
criticised his support for Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the
results of the 2020 presidential election. Most Republicans will
just be happy the speaker selection debacle is over for now, but
there may be some in the party, such Mitt Romney, who wish events
had taken a different direction. A senator for Utah, Romney has
spent the last few years angering his Trump-supporting colleagues
by voting to convict the former president in both of his
impeachment trials and speaking out against him on several
occasions. He announced he was retiring in September, and this week
his biography hits the shelves, detailing his life in politics and
how he has fallen out of love with the Republican party of today.
Jonathan Freedland talks to McKay Coppins, a staff writer at the
Atlantic and author of Romney: A Reckoning.