Mitt Romney says Liz Cheney 'would not' win the GOP nomination 'if she were to run' in 2024
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Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Rep. Liz Cheney, who has teased a White House run in 2024, would not win the GOP nomination. Romney won the nomination in 2012.
Senator Mitt Romney in the basement of the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., US, on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Sen. Mitt Romney, R-UT, speaks to reporters outside the Senate Chambers in the U.S. Capitol Building on July 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., at the Mead Ranch on Tuesday, Aug 16, 2022 in Jackson Hole, WY. ( Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Hilton Anatole on August 06, 2022 in Dallas, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Romney, who represents Utah in the U.S. Senate, told the South Valley Chamber of Commerce in Sandy, Utah on Thursday that Cheney would definitively not be the Republican nominee.
"I’m not going to encourage anyone to run for president. I’ve done that myself, and that’s something I’m not doing again. I don’t know if she really wants to do that. She would not become the nominee if she were to run. I can’t imagine that would occur," Romney said alongside Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. John Curtis, UT-03, the Deseret News reported.