Romney loyalists ponder a future with Trump

Senator Bernie Sanders said he plans to meet with his US presidential campaign rival Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, on Tuesday night after the party’s final primary election is concluded.

“I think they’re sitting in their cocoon, you know, away from the reality of the world”, Manafort said, rejecting the Hitler comparison and calling Romney’s allies “sore losers”. He said he respected people, including Romney, who might not get there.

Clinton and Obama were scheduled to make their first appearance together since the president announced his endorsement of the likely Democratic nominee last week. “I love the founders, I love what this country is built upon and its values, and seeing this is breaking my heart, for the party that means so much”, said Romney, choking up and blinking back tears.

By Saturday morning, Trump was directly responding to Romney, tweeting, “Mitt Romney had his chance to beat a failed president but he choked like a dog”. In the same conversation, the former MA governor reportedly called out Ted Cruz and John Kasich by name for their failures in the Republican primary.

Romney did admit Trump did some things right.

“But what that misses is that then the Republican National Committee – for example, there are over 500 people with another 600 coming out of the battleground states who have been trained, who we’re working with, who will become part of our Trump campaign”, he said. He added that he will not vote for Clinton, but may write in a different candidate or vote for Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson.

“I don’t think he’s going to be outspent”, he said.

According to CNN, Romney didn’t reserve his criticism for his fellow Republicans.

“This again is just sour grapes from the establishment who have had the power stripped out of theirs hands by a candidate that they do not like because he has managed to do something they have been unable to do for decades”, Pierson said.

The presumptive Republican nominee made his comments in a statement issued in response to the attack on a Florida gay nightclub, which left at least 50 dead and scores more wounded. Romney’s mentee and vice-presidential running mate, Paul Ryan, has uneasily backed Trump, but Romney declined multiple chances to pass judgment on the speaker’s decision. “But my choice is different than that of the other people, and I’m certainly not going to argue with them about their choice”.

And he said Trump won’t apologize for appearing to mock a disabled reporter in November 2015 – footage now appearing in a pro-Clinton super PAC’s anti-Trump attack ad – saying that Trump has “already dealt with that matter”.

But if Romney had ran?