Romney to run for Utah senate, then to the Presidency in 2020
Sources close to former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he's going to announce soon that he will be running for the seat Republican Senator Orrin Hatch is leaving behind in Utah, after 42 years in the Senate. He will be running as a 'foe' to T-rump, whom he has sparred with since 2015 and promises to be an 'open check' on the President.
Romney, a former Governor of Massachusetts and Michigan native, has not spent much of his life in Utah. Yet he is considered 'Mormon Royalty' in the state, where T-rump is rapidly losing support.
Governor Gary Herbert is anxious to have Romney run for Hatch's seat. A mutual friend of the two men, business leader Ken Gardner, is said to have showed Herbert a text Gardner received from Romney the other day, when Gardner asked if he decided to run or not.
Romney's text said "I'm running!"
Sources close to Romney say he expects to win the seat over his Democratic rival, and then ask for the party's Presidential nomination in 2020 over T-rump or Pence. Romney ran against Obama in 2012, and lost by a wide margin.