“We don’t know what we are or what we stand for within our party,” the Republican senator said to a gathering of influential donors.
Sen. Mitt Romney speaks to reporters last week on Capitol Hill. PARK CITY, Utah — Alarmed by the dominance of Donald Trump less than 100 days before the Iowa caucuses, Sen. Mitt Romney urged an influential group of his onetime campaign donors to help narrow the GOP field to one viable challenger who can face off against the former president for the nomination.
Romney said he told Ryan that he had no clear answer when Ryan asked him what the conservative movement would look like after Trump. Ryan touched on his own concern that the party is now driven by “populism untethered to principles” and more frequently tethered to “the cult of Donald Trump’s personality.”
Romney predicted that multiple candidates will try to stay in the race for the early contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina — though some will run out of money before then. He said he viewed the end of February as “D-Day.”
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