Romney, the Republican’s presidential candidate in 2012, remains the favorite overall to win the Senate seat in November. But if he had won enough votes at the state GOP convention on Saturday he would have bypassed a primary altogether. Mitt Romney, Trump critic on the right, announces Senate run in Utah Read moreKennedy, a doctor and lawyer, got big applause from the crowd as he railed against the national debt, Common Core education standards and former President Barack Obama’s health care law. Trump fired back that Romney “choked like a dog” during his own White House run. But the two men have shown signs of making peace and Romney has accepted Trump’s endorsement.

Source: The Guardian April 22, 2018 03:33 UTC