“Aren’t you embarrassed?” Utah senator Mitt Romney asked the delegates at the Maverik Center in West Valley City
Sen. Mitt Romney met a much less-than-favorable reception at the Utah Republican party convention on Saturday, where he was called a “traitor” and a “communist” as he vied to get a work in edgewise, according to The Guardian.
In response to the hostile crowd, consisting of more than 2,100 delegates, the Salt Lake City Tribune reported that Romney asked, “Aren’t you embarrassed?”
Addressing the Maverik Center in West Valley City, he explained, “I’m a man who says what he means, and you know I was not a fan of our last president’s character issues.”
Though six other Republican senators voted to convict then-President Donald Trump in his second impeachment, Romney is the only Republican to vote for Trump’s impeachment twice — for seeking political dirt on his then-political opponent Joe Biden from Ukraine and then again for instigating the fatal Capitol riot on January 6, encouraging his supporters to “fight like hell” and misleading them to believe the 2020 election was stolen by now-President Biden, The Guardian reports.
“You can boo all you like,” said Romney, who was elected senator from Utah in 2018. “I’ve been a Republican all of my life. My dad was the governor of Michigan and I was the Republican nominee for president in 2012.”
