Mitt Romney completed one of the most circuitous comebacks in political history on Tuesday, with voters in Utah electing the one-time Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee to be the state’s next senator. The Michigan-born-and-raised Romney handily defeated Democratic nominee Jenny Wilson, an at-large member of the Salt Lake City City Council. Romney’s election in heavily Republican Utah was never really in question. He replaces fellow Republican Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving GOP senator in history who is retiring after 42 years in office. In one speech he said Romney “choke like a dog.”The two later backed off their insult-trading, and Romney was on the president-elect’s shortlist for secretary of state.

Source: Huffington Post November 07, 2018 03:03 UTC