Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) shot down Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) presidential hopes, telling Desert News that he “can’t imagine” she would become the Republican nominee if she ran in 2024.
“I’m not going to encourage anyone to run for president. I’ve done that myself, and that’s something I’m not doing again. I don’t know if she really wants to do that. She would not become the nominee if she were to run,” Romney told Desert News on Thursday. “I can’t imagine that would occur.”
Romney’s comments come fresh off the heels of Cheney’s primary defeat to the former President Donald Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman, who received more than two-thirds of the vote.
During Cheney’s concession speech on Tuesday, she likened herself to former President Abraham Lincoln and alluded to a future presidential candidacy. Cheney said:
The great and original champion…
