Fox News host Laura Ingraham said she might move to Utah and run against Sen. Mitt Romney if no one else does after the Republican voted to convict President Trump on one article of impeachment on Wednesday.
“At the end of the day, one man was trying to impress the elites in Washington today, and the guy in the oval office was not,” Ingraham said. “Romney, I hope, enjoys his brief moment in the sun while he’s lauded by the very people who spent the last 20 years attacking him. Because in a few weeks, the phone will stop ringing. He’ll be lucky to get booked on Chris Cuomo’s show.”
Romney, 72, interviewed to be Trump’s secretary of state but joked in October that he was happy not to be selected after the president fired Rex Tillerson from the position as a rift grew between the two.
“He’s the ultimate selfish, preening, self-centered politician,” Ingraham said. “He wanted desperately to be Trump’s secretary of state, and then, he casts this futile, pointless vote to convict him in order to show that he’s a man of principle, unlike all these other Republicans. It’s called payback.”
During a speech to celebrate his acquittal, Trump asked GOP Utah Sen. Mike Lee to apologize to his constituents after Romney voted out of step with his Republican Senate colleagues.
“We won’t ever forget. Utah should never forget. And if I have to move there to run against him in four-and-a-half years, I will,” Ingraham said.
Romney was the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, losing to President Barack Obama. A Utah Policy survey showed that Trump is now more popular than Romney in the state of Utah.
“For a few brief, shining moments in 2008 and 2012, some of us thought that Romney had a solid core,” added Ingraham. “Boy, did he fool us.”
