Mitt Romney has been reaching out privately to key players in the Republican resistance about impeachment, GabrielSherman reports, while GOP elected officials and donors are privately war-gaming what an endgame for Trump would look like
. “He is a pompous ‘ass’ who has been fighting me from the beginning, except when he begged me for my endorsement for his Senate run , and when he begged me to be Secretary of State . He is so bad for R’s!”
According to people close to Romney, he’s firmly decided against primarying Trump, an enterprise he believes to be a sure loser given Trump’s enduring GOP support. Romney has also told people that, as an unsuccessful two-time presidential candidate, he’s the wrong person to take on Trump. Instead, a Romney adviser told me, Romney believes he has more potential power as a senator who will decide Trump’s fate in an impeachment trial.
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