Wed Sep 13, 2023 – 3:22 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, former governor of Massachusetts and unsuccessful 2012 Republican nominee for president, announced Wednesday that he will not seek reelection after his current term expires, calling for a “new generation of leaders” to face America’s myriad challenges.
“I have 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-eighties,” said Romney, age 76. “Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders. They’re the ones that need to make the decisions that will shape the world they will be living in.”
My message to Utahns on my Senate reelection plan: pic.twitter.com/kgbsfIxMeR
— Senator Mitt Romney (@SenatorRomney) September 13, 2023
In his announcement, Romney panned both the current Democrat president as well as his Republican predecessor and potential 2024 opponent as similarly unserious about problems facing the United States.
“We face critical challenges—mounting national debt, climate change, and the ambitious authoritarians of Russia and China,” he said. “Neither President Biden nor former President Trump are leading their party to confront them. On the deficits and
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