Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Mitt's Homies

The Hill has a column about Mitt Romney's (R?-UT) apparent indecision about running for reelection in 2024, and his refusal as yet to endorse fellow Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) for reelection this year. While Mitt has devoted little energy to fund-raising, he is quite wealthy and perhaps doesn't believe it critical.

The article claims Romney is more popular with Utah's LDS Republicans than with Republicans elsewhere, with many having only lukewarm support for Donald Trump. A University of Utah political scientist is quoted as having said the following about his state's attitudes toward Trump:

Utah Republicans on the whole are less favorable towards Trump. Moderate LDS voters who register Republicans, who are pretty loyal Republicans, are pretty uncomfortable with Trump’s brand of Republican politics, with the perceived moral character of the candidate. LDS Republicans tend to be pretty pro-immigrant, pro-refugee, and you have a candidate in Trump who made [his] signature issues to be on the opposite side of that.

There's a lot of "pretty" in that quote, suggesting a phone interview. Give the column author credit for quoting verbatim w/o cleaning up the wording. It does leave me wondering if his intent was to discredit the professor ever so slightly?

Aside: LDS Republicans I know personally favor Trump's policies, w/o endorsing his private life.