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| Trump critic Mitt Romney announces run for Utah Senate seat | Trump critic Mitt Romney announces run for Utah Senate seat |
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| Mitt Romney, a prominent Republican critic of President Donald Trump, has announced that he is running for Utah’s US Senate seat. | |
| Mr Romney is expected to easily win the race to replace retiring Republican Senator Orrin Hatch. | Mr Romney is expected to easily win the race to replace retiring Republican Senator Orrin Hatch. |
| “Given all that America faces, we feel that this is the right time for me to serve our state and our country,” Mr Romney said in a video posted on Twitter. | |
| The former Massachusetts governor has spoken out against Mr Trump multiple times, criticising him during the 2016 election and when he hesitated to condemn white supremacists last year. | |
| In March 2016, he bashed Mr Trump as a “phony” and “a fraud” and said he couldn’t vote for him. | |
| Mr Romney, immensely popular among Utah’s Mormon base, in 2012 became the first-ever Mormon to secure a major-party presidential nomination. He ultimately lost to President Barack Obama, who was re-elected for a second presidential term. |