Senator Mitt Romney, once Republican presidential nominee turned persona non grata after voting twice for the impeachments of President-elect Donald Trump, conceded some ground in a Sunday interview on CNN. Speaking with Jake Tapper on State of the Union, the soon-to-retire Senator from Utah said:
MAGA is the Republican Party and Donald Trump is the Republican Party today. And if you were to ask me who the nominee will be in 2028, it would be JD Vance. Alright? He’s smart, well-spoken, a part of the MAGA movement.
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Tapper interjected by confronting Romney with previous criticism of Vance, which Romney quickly brushed off, saying:
I’m not going to rehash history, and we’ve worked together in the Senate together since then.
Romney continued:
That is what the Republican Party is, will the party need to…
