- Utah Democrat Jenny Wilson roasted her Senate race opponent, former 'Never Trumper' Mitt Romney, after Romney thanked President Donald Trump for his endorsement.
- Wilson criticized Romney for allying himself with a president whose endorsement he previously said he would never accept.
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Romney's Senate opponent roasts him for accepting Trump's endorsement after he said he wouldn't
Utah Senate candidate Mitt Romney was roasted on Tuesday by his Democratic opponent after he thanked President Donald Trump for his endorsement.
Utah Democrat Jenny Wilson roasted her Senate race opponent, former 'Never Trumper' Mitt Romney, after Romney thanked President Donald Trump for his endorsement on Monday.
Wilson, a Salt Lake County Council member, retweeted a message Romney wrote in March 2016 stating that he would not have accepted Trump's endorsement if the president "
So why did you accept it to... @ Jenny Wilson for UT
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Wilson's tweet was liked 41,000 times by Tuesday afternoon.
The comment echoes a longstanding critique of Romney: that he is a flip-flopper on key issues and, as President Barack Obama argued in 2012, has "no core."
Romney's relationship with Trump has been marked by a series of dramatic public reversals.
In 2012, Trump tweeted his endorsement of Romney's presidential run against Obama, telling his followers to "go out and vote" for the Republican, whom he called "fantastic."
But in the summer of 2015, Romney publicly criticized Trump after the then-presidential candidate attacked Arizona Sen. John McCain's military service. And several months later, as Trump closed in on the GOP nomination, Romney escalated his attacks on Trump, famously excoriating the candidate's character and record, calling him a "phony" and a "fraud" whose "
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Trump hit back repeatedly, calling the former party leader "
Wilson has very little chance of beating Romney, who A January poll found he would win 64% of the vote to
A devout Mormon, Romney has deep religious and familial connections to the state, where he has spent a good chunk of his time since 2013, and is beloved for rescuing Salt Lake City's 2002 Winter Olympics after a bribery scandal.
But Utah, a ruby red state, is not particularly fond of Trump, who won just 45% of the vote in 2016. And Romney will likely keep some distance from the president throughout his campaign.
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