President Trump isn’t the only one miffed with Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, the lone Republican in Congress to vote to convict the president on a partisan impeachment charge.
A new national Rasmussen Reports survey found that 64% of Republican voters do not approve of the first-term senator and 2012 GOP presidential nominee.
Worse, 39% of likely Republican voters want him ejected from the Senate. And not many more disagree, at 43%.
“Mitt Romney was the only Republican senator who voted guilty last week on one of the impeachment counts brought against President Trump by House Democrats. Many Republicans were furious at Romney, and a sizable number of GOP voters are ready to throw him out of the party,” said the latest survey analysis.
Romney’s move further distanced him from Trump and the 94% of Republicans who support Trump and his reelection. In fact, Rasmussen said, “63% of GOP voters think their party should be more like Trump than like Romney. Thirty percent say it should be more like Romney.”
But Romney has gained some new pals with his Trump criticism. Democrats, said the survey analysis, “have a new respect for Romney. Sixty percent (60%) now regard him favorably, up from 47% last fall.”
A poll in Utah found voters split on Romney.
