“You have many of the Trump supporters in elected office, senators, congresspeople, governors, continuing to say the same thing, that the election was stolen,” Romney said.
But, he said, what they should tell people is that the Trump campaign “had a chance to take their message to the courts, the courts laughed them out of court. I’ve seen no evidence that suggests that there was widespread voter fraud.”
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If you're a MAGAt, you don't have to see evidence, you just have to feel it.
Romney said elected Republicans need to go on Fox News and say, “You know what, I was a big Trump supporter, I was really pulling for Donald Trump, but he lost fair and square.”
Romney made the comments to the Economic Club of Chicago during an online forum with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., titled “Governing from the Middle.”
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Earlier Tuesday, Romney was among five Republicans who joined Senate Democrats in rejecting an effort by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to declare the pending impeachment trial unconstitutional. The vote sent a strong signal Tuesday that there are not nearly enough votes to convict Trump of inciting an insurrection.
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Romney said over the weekend that the impeachment trial is necessary to hold Trump accountable for his alleged conduct after the election and the deadly incursion at the U.S. Capitol.
“Five people died with the attack on the Capitol. Five human beings died. There’s no question but that the president incited the insurrection that occurred,” he said Tuesday. “How culpable is he? That’s something we will evaluate.”
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Romney took issue with Republicans who say a Senate trial would further inflame passions in an already divided country.
“I say, first of all, have you gone out publicly and said that there was not widespread voter fraud and that Joe Biden is the legitimate president of the United States? If you said that, then I’m happy to listen to you talk about other things that might inflame anger and divisiveness,” he said.
“But if you haven’t said that, that’s really what’s at the source of the anger right now.”
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A Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll released last week found that 65% of Utah Republicans believe there was widespread voter fraud and 56% believe Trump legitimately won the election.
“You’ve got to have that get into the rear-view mirror before you talk about the next stage,” Romney said.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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