Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has confirmed President-elect Donald Trump will not choose him to serve as Secretary of State.
Scoop: Trump called Romney to tell him he's not getting post, I'm told.
Pres-elect expressed nothing but respect for him in recent days.— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) December 13, 2016
While sources did not...
Say what you will about Donny Deutsch, but the man-about-Manhattan and the Hamptons moves in the Trump social circle and is well-connected there.
So attention must be paid to Deutsch’s declaration on today’s With All Due Respect. Asked by Mark Halperin whether the talk about Romney
Project Veritas has unmasked the man behind the 47% video that shook the 2012 presidential election. A hidden camera captured Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney explaining to a crows of moneyed donors that 47% of the country will not vote for him because their belief is that government should satisfy their...
According to new polling, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has more support from military veterans than the other presidential candidates. Recent polling of active military showed 37% of respondents chose Johnson, reports The Hill.
Depending upon the accuracy of the polling, it may serve as further evidence that military service members are increasingly Libertarian.
Mitt Romney has entered the next phase of his stop Trump crusade and will campaign with Ohio governor John Kasich in the state Monday.
NBC News reported:
Mitt Romney to C...
Mitt Romney already has gone after Donald Trump, suggesting there might be a “bombshell” in the tax returns Trump now refuses to make public.
Romney is stepping it up a notch, giving a speech today starting at 11:30 a.m. Eastern, in which he lashes out at Donald Trump:
Mitt Romney will call Donald...
On Wednesday Mitt Romney said some interesting things about Donald Trump and his tax returns, and they got picked up by a lot of news outlets and pundits, including Legal Insurrection. This is the way his remarks were generally reported:
He also called on the entire GOP field to release their...
In an interview with Fox News today, Mitt Romney suggested there was reason to believe there is a bombshell in the tax returns Donald Trump has not yet released:
There might be a “bombshell” revelation to be discovered in Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s tax returns, 2012 party nominee Mitt Romney...
National Review has a special issue Against Donald Trump, with columns by 22 people, most of whom are familiar conservative writers and media personalities.
I skimmed a few of the columns and they make the case persuasively that Trump is not a conservative. You know the arguments already. He’s for activist big...
Back in 2012, Mitt Romney got raked over the coals for saying during a presidential debate that he had “binders full of women” from which he picked some of his top advisors. It was a memeworthy moment for the Romney campaign, and gave birth to a truckload of “binder” memes. Feminists...
General Joseph Dunford has been nominated to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
While testifying before congress yesterday, he made one claim that might come as news to President Obama. Phil Stewart and David Alexander of Reuters reported:
Russia is...
Love him, hate him, or feel ambivalent toward him, Mitt Romney was “right about everything,” and that is standing him in good stead with the GOP. Indeed, Politico is reporting that Romney is “working to rid the GOP presidential primary of the mayhem that marked his own race”:
Mitt Romney is working...
Each day brings a new reason to be happy about Harry Reid’s impending retirement.
The newest one is his outright admission that he used his position as senate leader to dishonestly smear Mitt Romney in the run-up to the 2012 election.
Even the reliably liberal Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post is disgusted:
Harry...
Now that Romney has released a statement to his supporters announcing that he won’t be running in 2016, the next question is, to whom will he throw his support and his proven ability to raise money?
Many...
I didn’t see this coming.
When Aleister posted the Reader Poll matching Mitt versus Jeb, I thought there would be a relatively close split.
We deliberately forced the readership into that choice to get a sense of how people who normally would not vote for either in a primary would split between the...
Alright Team Insurrection, it’s time for another reader poll.
Philip Rucker and Robert Costa of the Washington Post are speculating about a political collision between Jeb Bush...
During a meeting in New York this week, Mitt Romney told a group of key donors that he is “seriously considering” a third run at the Presidency.
According to a source at the meeting, Romney confirmed, “I’ve run twice. Yeah, I want to be president,” and indicated that if he were...
