Her attack stunned other members of Mr. Romney’s family, with one suggesting she would regret putting her political loyalties over her family but they declined to publicly respond in kind. Mr. Romney’s broadside, published just before he is to be sworn in as the junior senator from his current home state of Utah, represented the latest turn in an on-and-off political feud between the two men that dates back to Mr. Romney’s attacks on Mr. Trump during the 2016 campaign. Sensing the makings of a primary threat to the president, some of his most ardent backers on the R.N.C. began making the case that the party’s rules be changed to ensure Mr. Trump’s renomination in 2020. And, Mr. Williams wrote, the party should use its winter meeting this month to pass a resolution endorsing Mr. Trump and declaring him “the presumptive nominee in 2020.”

Source: New York Times January 02, 2019 18:08 UTC