Utahns saw Mr. Trump as a far cry from his predecessor from four years earlier. “We have a little bit of an inferiority complex in the state of Utah,” Mr. Cox said. Mr. Romney “has to be at the top of that list,” Mr. Hemmert said. Mr. Trump and Mr. Romney ferociously attacked each other in 2016. Mr. Romney called his successor “a phony, a fraud.”Returning fire, Mr. Trump deemed Mr. Romney “a choker” who “walks like a penguin.”There was a brief détente when Mr. Romney was considered for secretary of state after the 2016 election.

Source: New York Times January 14, 2018 12:45 UTC