Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney called for President Biden and former President Donald Trump to join him in retirement by dropping their bids for president.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, used President Biden's own words against him while calling on him to drop his 2024 bid for re-election and join him in retirement at the end of his term.own words against him on Wednesday while calling on him to drop his 2024 bid for re-election and join him in retirement at the end of his term.he would not be seeking a second term, citing his own advanced age as his main reason for the decision.
"President Biden, when he was running, said he was a transitional figure to the next generation. Well, time to transition," Romney said when asked by a reporter if his decision not to run for re-election because of his age should also apply to Biden, 80, and former President Donald Trump, 77. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, speaks to the media about not running for a second Senate term in his office in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington on Wednesday. September 13, 2023.a"transition candidate" during his 2020 campaign for the presidency, something he later meant he would be someone who would help pave the way for a new generation of Democratic leadership.
"I think it would be a great thing if both President Biden and former President Trump were to stand aside and let their respective party pick someone in the next generation … I think both parties would be far better served if they were going to be represented by people other than those of us from the baby boom generation," he added.
Concern over Biden's age amid his re-election has continued to grow, even from within his own party. A
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