Mitt Romney Wins Utah Republican Senate Primary
- Former presidential candidate favored to win Senate seat
- Romney and Trump have clashed often, though Trump endorsed him
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Mitt Romney won his party’s Senate primary in Utah and advanced to the general election in November where the former Republican presidential nominee and sometimes critic of President Donald Trump will be heavily favored to win.
Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, has been one of President Donald Trump’s most prominent critics from within the Republican Party, referring to then-candidate Trump in a March 2016 speech as "a phony, a fraud." As a senator, Romney could prove an irritant for the White House, like Arizona Republican John McCain who has been a prominent voice -- and sometimes vote -- against some of the president’s policies and actions.