Mitt Romney asks Dem Sens. Cory Booker, Mark Warner to primary Biden

[Kamaji]

Mitt Romney asks Dem Sens. Cory Booker, Mark Warner to primary Biden: report

By Victor Nava
Published Oct. 11, 2023

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) revealed Tuesday that he has encouraged several of his Democratic Senate colleagues to challenge President Biden for the party’s 2024 nomination.

Romney, the GOP nominee for president in 2012, specifically named Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) as lawmakers whom he has approached with his proposal, both of whom declined to entertain the idea of primarying the 80-year-old incumbent.

The former Massachusetts governor’s remarks came during an event for Republican donors in Utah, according to Deseret News, where he also told the audience that Democrats have informed him that anyone replacing Biden would need to be “more progressive,” like Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) or Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

“And they don’t want that — they don’t think that’s right for the country, either,” Romney said of the response from them to the prospect of a far-left Democrat becoming president.

Booker, who was elected to the Senate in 2013, endorsed Biden for president in January 2020 after an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination that year.

He endorsed Biden again in April, shortly after the president announced that he would seek re-election in 2024.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/10/11/romney-asks-sens-cory-booker-mark-warner-to-primary-biden/

[Kamaji]

I cannot wait for him to be gone.

[PeteS in CA]

  Well, Romneye may yet have a little influence with his soon-to-be-former allies.