The Wall Street Journal: Trump endorses Romney for Utah Senate seat

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump Monday night permitted Republican Mitt Romney for a Utah Senate seat, subsidy a GOP claimant who is a favorite within a celebration though who has in a past been a outspoken censor of a president.

“He will make a good Senator and estimable inheritor to @OrrinHatch, and has my full support and endorsement!” Trump pronounced in a Twitter post. Also on Twitter, Romney thanked Trump for a endorsement.

Romney, who was a Republic Party’s presidential claimant opposite obligatory Barack Obama in 2012, announced his candidacy for a Senate chair on Friday.

Trump had been a demure enthusiast of Romney, who during a 2016 debate deteriorate called Trump a “phony” and a “fraud” while propelling associate Republicans to force a contested gathering to select a opposite candidate. Romney also criticized Trump’s response to events in Charlottesville, Va., final year, when a boss pronounced that both white supremacist protesters and counter-demonstrators were to censure for clashes that killed one immature woman. Romney pronounced that a boss had “caused racists to rejoice, minorities to weep, and a immeasurable heart of American to mourn.”

An stretched chronicle of this news appears on WSJ.com.

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