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Sen. Mitt Romney is predicting Trump will be the GOP's nominee in 2024 if he runs.
The Utah Republican – who twice voted to impeach former President Donald Trump – made the statement following the victory by Trump-backed candidate J.D. Vance in the Ohio Republican primary for Senate.
He will succeed Sen. Rob Portman, a more conventional establishment Republican who nevertheless immediately threw his support to Vance following his win Tuesday.
'I don’t delude myself into thinking I have a big swath of the Republican Party,' said Romney, who was the party's presidential nominee in 2012 and was defeated by President Barack Obama.
'It’s hard to imagine anything that would derail his support,' he said, in comments reported by Axios. 'So if he wants to become the nominee in ‘24, I think he’s very likely to achieve that,' Romney said.
'He's the leader of the party, that's clear ... If he decides to run, he will be the nominee,' Romney said.
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney is one of the few Senate Republicans who has been willing to take on former President Donald Trump. He called Trump 'the leader of the party' and said 'if he decides to run, he will be the nominee'
Romeny's comments are hardly out of
