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Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-10-09): "I’ve made it very clear that I don’t want Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States," Mr. Romney said at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah. But, he added later: "I want to continue to have a voice in the Republican Party following this election. I think there’s a good chance that the Republican Party is going to need to be rebuilt or reoriented." [...] "When someone has been determined by a jury to have committed sexual assault, that is not someone who I want my kids and grandkids to see as president of the United States," he told MSNBC, a reference to the civil case brought against Mr. Trump by the former magazine writer E. Jean Carroll. Mr. Romney also holds Mr. Trump’s running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, in particularly low esteem. "I don’t know that I can disrespect someone more," Mr. Romney told his biographer, McKay Coppins of The Atlantic, last year.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2023-11-09): Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said Thursday he’ll vote for the same person for president next year that he did in 2016, if President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are on the ballot. His wife, Ann Romney. [...] Coppins wrote, however, that Romney cast a write-in vote for his wife in 2016 "and he planned to do so again. But in private, he made little effort to conceal the fact that he was pulling for Joe Biden."
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-09-30): Flake, a Republican, announced his endorsement of the Democratic ticket over former President Donald Trump in a post on X, saying he wants to put "country over party." [...] He is far from the only Republican to publicly support the Democratic ticket in 2024. Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, announced their support for Harris earlier this month, and more than 100 former national security officials who served under Republican presidents signed a letter calling Trump "unfit to serve again as president, or indeed in any office of public trust." [...] The majority of Utah's GOP establishment has been more full-throated in its support of Trump — although Sen. Mitt Romney, another noted Trump skeptic who voted for his conviction after the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection, has remained quiet on publicly endorsing in the presidential campaign, despite reported outreach from the Harris campaign.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-10-04): Here’s a rundown of who has endorsed whom: Harris is endorsed by most elected members of the Democratic Party. President Joe Biden, who exited the presidential race in July, immediately endorsed her after his withdrawal, and the party generally coalesced around her candidacy quickly. [...] The 2012 Republican ticket, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and former House Speaker Paul Ryan, are vocal critics of Trump and have not endorsed him.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-10-08): Utah Sen. Mitt Romney has long said he doesn’t want Donald Trump to be elected president in November, but he predicts the Republican nominee will win because Democrats have staked out liberal social positions that have alienated potentially persuadable voters. [...] Romney said he remains steadfast that he does not want Trump to win the election, but he won’t endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as some — like former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney — have done because he wants to have a hand in reshaping the post-Trump Republican Party. [...] Foreign adversaries have chosen sides in which of the two presidential contenders they are backing, the Utah senator, who is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-09-18): SALT LAKE CITY — Over 100 Republican former national security officials and members of Congress endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in a letter of support Wednesday, calling former President Donald Trump "unfit to serve again as president, or indeed in any office of public trust." [...] The list also includes some Republicans who did not endorse President Joe Biden in a similar open letter in 2020: former members of Congress, Charles W. Boustany Jr., of Louisiana, Barbara Comstock, of Virginia, Dan Miller, of Florida, and Bill Paxon of New York. [...] The Reagan staffers join the list of over 230 former Republican staffers who have endorsed the current vice president. Of those, over 40 were staffers on Romney's election campaigns.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-08-27): More than 200 Republicans who worked for both Bush presidents, the late Sen. John McCain and Sen. Mitt Romney declared their endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign in an open letter released Monday. [...] A similar group of anti-Trump Republicans, including several hundred former aides to George W. Bush and McCain, endorsed Biden’s 2020 presidential election campaign. [...] McCain said in 2016 that he couldn’t back Trump or Democrat Hillary Clinton, citing Trump’s inflammatory comments about women. His wife, Cindy McCain, later endorsed Biden in the 2020 election.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-10-09): SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s outgoing U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney reiterated Tuesday in Salt Lake City that he will not vote for Donald Trump in November. But the moderate Republican, who has been one of Trump’s most outspoken critics, said he won’t be joining a growing group of high-profile Republicans including former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney and a Trump White House aide, who have publicly endorsed Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. "I’ve made it very clear that I don’t want Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States, and you’re going to have to do the very difficult calculation of what that would mean, alright," Romney said during a talk at The Hinkley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said he won't endorse Harris even though he also says he doesn't want Trump to win. During a discussion at the University of Utah's Hinckley Institute of Politics, Romney said he has "made it very clear that I don’t want Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States. And you’re going to have to do the very difficult calculation of what that would mean, all right?" [...] Romney, who voted to convict Trump at his second impeachment trial, said where he stands is "pretty clear." He declined to clarify further, however. Romney has said he didn't vote for Trump in 2016 or 2020, either.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) is not endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. [...] "I’ve made it very clear that I don’t want Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States," Romney said at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah. [...] In the 2016 election, Romney wrote in the name of his wife, Ann, for president, and in 2020, he said he did not vote for Trump but would not say if he voted for Joe Biden instead.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-08-26): WASHINGTON — More than 200 Republicans who previously worked for either former President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., or Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in an open letter Monday obtained exclusively by USA TODAY. [...] A similar group of about 150 anti-Trump former staffers of Bush, McCain and Romney pledged support for President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. [...] Romney, who voted to impeach Trump as a senator, said he won't support Trump in the 2024 election, but he hasn't endorsed Harris either. Bush, whose family has long been at odds with Trump, did not attend last month's Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, though has refrained form criticizing Trump publicly. As a candidate in 2015, Trump said McCain was "not a war hero." Four years ago, McCain's widow, Cindy McCain, endorsed Biden over Trump.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-09-27): As Election Day nears and a parade of anti-Trump Republicans announce their support for Vice President Kamala Harris, one prominent GOP Trump critic has withheld his endorsement: Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), one of the rare anti-Trump Republicans who still holds elected office. [...] Romney has questioned the value and impact of his endorsement and expressed a desire to preserve his ability to rebuild the Republican Party in a post-Trump world, said three people familiar with those conversations and his thinking who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations. [...] In the Atlantic interview, Romney cited his discomfort with Biden’s policies as one of the barriers to endorsing the sitting president, who dropped out of the race in July.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2023-09-13): Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the Republican nominee for president in 2012 who has found himself increasingly out of step with the party in the Donald Trump era, announced Wednesday that he will not seek a second term in 2024. In a video message to the residents of Utah posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, Romney was critical of both Trump and President Joe Biden, saying both men had failed to address the nation’s most pressing problems. "We face critical challenges: mounting national debt, climate change and the ambitious authoritarians of Russia and China," Romney said in the video. "Neither President Biden nor former President Trump are leading their party to confront those issues. On deficits and debt, both men refuse to address entitlements even though they know that this represent two-thirds of federal spending."
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-06-13): The Utah senator Mitt Romney declined to rule out voting for Joe Biden next year and said he has not offered an endorsement in the Republican race because his backing would probably be a "kiss of death". "If I endorsed them, it would be the kiss of death – I’m not going to do that," Romney said during an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press. [...] While Romney on Sunday said he would not rule out voting for Biden in 2024, he said there were other Democrats who would be a better nominee than the incumbent president. He said the candidate he would most like to support is the West Virginia Democratic senator Joe Manchin.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-02-12): Some Republican members said it was a wise move by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to end his presidential bid after finishing second to Trump in the Iowa caucuses. His exit and immediate endorsement of the former president means a return to big-time GOP politics — and even, eventually, Trump’s orbit was possible, lawmakers said. [...] Utah GOP Sen. Mitt Romney, who is not seeking reelection after being one of Trump’s chief critics within the party, recently said, "I don’t think that’s likely, but it is possible" that Haley could again seek national office as a Republican. But, he said, it is much more likely that DeSantis could try again, perhaps as soon as the 2028 election cycle. "You may alienate some people who like your opponent. That’s the nature of negative campaign ads and messaging," Romney said. "That’s how it works. And you make a calculation to do what you think is going to get you the nomination. That’s how it works.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-09-29): Jeff Flake, former U.S. senator from Arizona and ambassador to Turkey, announced Sunday he is endorsing Democrat Kamala Harris for president and encouraged other Republicans to "put country over party" and do the same. [...] Another well-known Latter-day Saint politician and anti-Trump nemesis , U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, also has bucked the GOP standard-bearer, but he has not publicly backed Harris. Flake’s endorsement shouldn’t, however, come as a great surprise. He endorsed Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 and helped launch a "Republicans for Biden" effort. He also immediately denounced the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection attempt by Trump supporters and criticized Trump for his role in fomenting it.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-09-18): Over 100 Republican former national security officials and members of Congress endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in a letter of support Wednesday, calling former President Donald Trump "unfit to serve again as President, or indeed in any office of public trust." [...] The list also includes some Republicans who did not endorse President Joe Biden in a similar open letter in 2020: former members of Congress Charles W. Boustany Jr. of Louisiana, Barbara Comstock of Virginia, Dan Miller of Florida and Bill Paxon of New York. [...] The Reagan staffers join the list of over 230 former Republican staffers who have endorsed the current vice president. Of those, over 40 were staffers on Romney’s election campaigns.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-09-12): Murkowski is one of a handful of GOP senators who are not supporting the former president in November; others in that camp include Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine and Todd Young of Indiana. None of those senators are backing Harris either, even as the Democratic nominee collects endorsements from former GOP officials whose Trump defections are delighting her party. [...] It’s one thing for former elected officials to endorse across the aisle. It’s a much bigger deal for sitting senators or congressmen to endorse the opposing party’s nominee. Prior GOP Trump critics, from Mitch McConnell on down, have largely fallen in line with the former president, reasoning that party unity is the best way to enact conservative policies. [...] Romney has the most political freedom of any Republican senator to cross Trump, since he’s retiring at the end of the year and will soon exit public service. He hasn’t gone there yet, however.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-08-27): More than 200 Republicans who previously worked for former President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., or Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, penned an open letter Monday endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president. [...] Monday's big endorsement from GOP officials follows a separate endorsement released late last week from a dozen Republican White House lawyers who served under former President Ronald Reagan, as well as under both Bush administrations. Similar to the Monday endorsement, Republican officials argued that returning to a Trump administration "would threaten democracy and undermine the rule of law in our country." [...] "We know now, thanks to exit polling and voter data, that it was moderate Republicans and conservative independents in key swing states that ultimately delivered the presidency to Joe Biden," the open letter concluded. "We’re heartfully calling on these friends, colleagues, neighbors, and family members to take a brave stand once more, to vote for leaders that will strive for consensus, not chaos; that will work to unite, not divide; that will make our country and our children proud."
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-09-29): After endorsing Kamala Harris on X Sunday, former Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona praised the vice president's grasp of foreign policy and her proposal for tougher border restrictions on ABC News' "This Week." [...] Flake also endorsed Biden in 2020 on the first day of the Republican National Convention along with dozens of former GOP members of Congress. [...] Raddatz pressed Flake on whether his endorsement would make inroads with voters in Arizona who are a part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, of which he is a member. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah., another high-profile Mormon Republican opposed to Trump, has not endorsed Harris.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-07-21): Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah Sen. Romney, who was the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, said in a statement that while he and Mr. Biden differed on many issues, the president has his respect. "I'm a classic Republican and he's a classic Democrat; obviously, President Biden and I usually didn't see eye-to-eye. I opposed many of his initiatives. But we did find common ground on infrastructure, Ukraine, the Electoral Count Act, adding religious liberty protections to the marriage bill, gun safety measures, and chip manufacturing," he wrote.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-09-11): The district went to President Joe Biden by 22,091 votes in 2020, Trump by 6,534 votes in 2016, U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, by 19,087 votes in 2012 and President Barack Obama by 3,370 in 2008 (the first time the state divided its electoral votes to a Democrat). [...] - Republican Party — former President Donald J. Trump (president) and U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio (vice president). - Democratic Party — Vice President Kamala Harris (president) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (vice president).
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-05-15): Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, argued that President Joe Biden should have pardoned Donald Trump after the Justice Department brought indictments against the former president and pressured New York prosecutors not to pursue Trump's ongoing hush money trial. [...] The Utah Republican argued that Biden should have pardoned Trump when the Justice Department announced charges against him and that the president "made an enormous error" by not pressuring New York prosecutors to drop their case against Trump. (Presidents can pardon only in federal cases.) [...] Biden and Trump on Wednesday agreed to participate in general election debates in June and September, at least the first of which will not have a live audience. Asked whether debates matter today and if he thinks it would influence votes, Romney, who unsuccessfully ran for president against Barack Obama in 2012, said people have "low expectations" for Biden but "much higher expectations" about Trump.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-08-28): More than 200 staffers for four previous Republican presidential nominees have endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris’ White House bid, cautioning that the notion of a second term for GOP nominee Donald Trump is "simply untenable" and "will hurt real, everyday people." In an open letter, first written about on Monday by USA Today, 238 people who worked for former President George H.W. Bush, former President George W. Bush, former Arizona Sen. John McCain and Utah Sen. Mitt Romney call on their fellow "moderate Republicans and conservative independents" to join them in backing Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, over Trump and his vice presidential pick, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio. [...] Many of the same signatories also issued a letter in 2020 supporting Biden’s candidacy over Trump.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2020-08-18): A number of prominent Republicans have endorsed Joe Biden’s presidential bid, handing the former vice president potentially useful support as he looks to win over dissatisfied members of the party. [...] "Given what I have experienced in the administration, I have to support Joe Biden for president and even though I am not a Democrat, even though I disagree on key issues, I’m confident that Joe Biden will protect the country and I’m confident that he won’t make the same mistakes as this President," Taylor said in a video produced by the group Republican Voters Against Trump in which he also made several allegations about Trump’s conduct. [...] More than 30 former staff members and state directors from Utah Sen. Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign are supporting Biden.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2024-07-22): As the waves of President Joe Biden’s announcement that he won’t seek another term in the White House rippled through Utah, leaders in the primarily Republican state responded with courteous and supportive messages — for the most part. Biden’s exit creates some uncertainty around Democrats’ presidential ticket, though Biden went on to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris, beginning a stream of support for her. Harris said she intends "to earn and win" the nomination. [...] "Others will judge his presidency. However, having worked with him these past few years, I respect President Biden. His decision to withdraw from the race was right and is in the best interest of the country," Romney said.
Claim: Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president (viral post, 2020-04-21)
Evidence (2020-08-28): Ex-McCain, Bush and Romney staffers endorse Biden, joining Republicans bucking Trump Republican aides who worked in the George W. Bush administration and for the late Senator John McCain and Mitt Romney vouched their support for 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden on Thursday, joining other GOP officials in rejecting President Trump's reelection campaign on the final day of the Republican National Convention. In separate letters released Thursday, alumni of the Bush administration, Utah Senator Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign and McCain's 2008 White House bid and congressional office announced their support for the former vice president. The Republican officials said that while they disagree with some of Biden's policy positions, they value his record of bipartisan work and believe he can offer steady leadership as the country grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, a weakened economy and deeply entrenched political divisions.
Claim: a conference titled "The Elite Global Leaders Conference" will be held at the Vatican on Oct. 23 and will focus on "humanity-empowering technology." (Viral Image/Post, 2021-10-10)
Evidence (2021-10-10): A private event matching the flyer’s description is being held at the Teutonic College in Vatican City later this month, according to a Vatican spokesperson. However, the event is not organized by the Vatican.