Sen. Mitt Romney, 76, announced Wednesday he will not vie for a second Senate term in 2024, saying it was time for a younger cohort to take the political stage. opening up a Senate seat in Utah.
“I spent my last 25 years in public service of one kind or another. At the end of another term, I’d be in my mid 80s. Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders,” Romney declared in a video posted to social media.
Romney, the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2012, had been one of the most vocal Republican critics of former President Donald Trump in the Senate.
Underscoring that he’s “not retiring from the fight,” Romney warned of mounting national difficulties ranging from a belligerent Russia and China to the ballooning national debt.
“Neither President Biden nor former President Trump are leading their party to confront those issues,” he stressed, hitting both of them for eschewing entitlement reform.
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