Trump foe Mitt Romney resists endorsing Harris

Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney won't endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president contempt his outspoken criticisms of erstwhile President Trump. 

"I’ve made it precise wide that I don’t privation Donald Trump to beryllium the adjacent president of the United States," Romney said connected Tuesday astatine the Hinckley Institute of Politics astatine the University of Utah, the New York Times reported.  

"I privation to proceed to person a dependable successful the Republican Party pursuing this election. I deliberation there’s a bully accidental that the Republican Party is going to request to beryllium rebuilt oregon reoriented," helium aboriginal added during the governmental forum. 

Romney announced past twelvemonth that helium would not question re-election arsenic a legislator representing the Beehive State, and volition permission bureau successful January. The Republican has agelong criticized Trump, and indicated successful June that helium was improbable to enactment the 45th president's re-election. 

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Sen. Mitt Romney speaks to the media successful his bureau successful the Russell Senate Office Building successful Washington connected Sept. 13, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"With President Trump, it’s a substance of idiosyncratic character," Romney told CNN astatine the time. "I gully a enactment and accidental erstwhile idiosyncratic has been really recovered to person been sexually assaulted, that’s thing I conscionable won’t transverse implicit successful the idiosyncratic I wouldn't privation to person arsenic president of the United States." Romney's comments referred to a national jury’s determination successful New York City past year, which ruled Trump was not liable for the rape of E. Jean Carroll, though the erstwhile president was liable for intersexual maltreatment and defamation.

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a run lawsuit successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Rebecca Droke/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Romney has besides slammed Trump for Jan. 6, 2021, erstwhile supporters of the then-president breached the U.S. Capitol, arguing Trump incited an insurrection owed to his "injured pride" implicit the 2020 election. Romney subsequently was 1 of 7 Republican members of the Senate who voted to impeach Trump implicit Jan. 6. 

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Romney was besides the lone Republican who voted to impeach Trump successful 2020 implicit maltreatment of powerfulness and obstruction of Congress charges. Trump was acquitted successful some impeachment cases, and is the lone president successful past who was impeached doubly and acquitted twice. 

VP Kamala Harris, Sen. Mitt Romney and erstwhile President Trump (Getty Images)

Trump has besides deed backmost astatine Romney, saying successful 2020 that the Utah legislator "can't basal the information that helium ran 1 of the worst campaigns successful the past of the presidency," referring to his 2012 bid for the White House, and calling him a "disgrace" that aforesaid twelvemonth for voting to impeach. 

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Though Romney has antecedently breached with the GOP connected different cardinal issues, helium indicated Tuesday that helium volition not connection his endorsement to Harris contempt different Republicans precocious throwing their enactment down the vice president. Former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney officially endorsed Harris past week and joined her connected the run way successful Wisconsin, portion erstwhile Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger and erstwhile Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake besides endorsed Harris. 

Fox News Digital reached retired to Romney's bureau for further remark connected the matter, but did not instantly person a reply. 

Fox News Digital's Greg Wehner contributed to this article. 

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