Mitt Romney shares new details about his relationships with Mike Lee, his 2018 U.S. Senate race, and why he avoided Ammon Bundy by hiding in a closet in an upcoming biography by McKay Coppins called 'Romney: A Reckoning.'
“Maybe he just can’t stand being in my shadow,” Romney says of Lee in McKay Coppins’ upcoming biography “Romney: A Reckoning.”
Lee spent months, for example, trying to help Donald Trump remain in the White House even though he had lost the 2020 election. Romney felt those efforts contradicted Lee’s self-professed fealty to the Constitution. Romney muses in the biography that Lee possibly had convinced himself that Trump would reward those efforts with an appointment to the Supreme Court.
Even though he was roundly praised for that vote, it did irreparable damage to his standing among Utah Republicans. In a closed-door meeting, Romney was blistered by Rep. Mike Schultz, R-Hooper, for “his lifelong disloyalty” to conservative issues, which included flip-flopping on abortion and reversing course on support for Trump. According to the book, Schultz also complained that Romney did not invite him to participate in a campaign event held in Weber County.Schultz says he remembers the meeting well, but his anger at Romney wasn’t solely motivated by his impeachment vote.
Schultz took issue with the assertion he was not invited to the Weber County event, insisting he was deliberately told by Romney’s campaign not to attend. A representative for Romney could not be reached for comment.Schultz said he was surprised to learn the story about the post-impeachment hearing was even included in the book.. Hatch was not the first to make that suggestion, though. In the biography, Romney says former Utah Gov.
FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2017 file photo, Jon Huntsman Jr., the U.S. ambassador to Russia, looks on during a ceremonial swearing-in event with Utah Gov. Gary Herbert Sin Salt Lake City.
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