In the final round of voting at the Utah Republican party convention, state Representative Mike Kennedy won 50.88% of the vote, and Mitt Romney placed second with 49.12%.

Giddy up.  This forces Mitt Romney into a republican primary runoff in June for the Utah senate seat being vacated by current Senator Orrin Hatch. [Kennedy Website HERE]

(Via The Hill) […] Saturday’s defeat was a surprising turn for Romney, whose national profile far exceeds Kennedy’s and who could count on a strong donor network and the endorsement of prominent Republicans, including Hatch and President Trump.

When he made his bid official, Romney was considered a virtual lock for the GOP nomination and was not expected to face a serious primary challenger.  […] Romney made headlines earlier on Saturday when he said he was not ready to endorse Trump for reelection in 2020, telling CNN he would “make that decision down the road.” (read more)

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President Trump tweets support for Mitt Romney. [Lumps Out]

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OK Utah, here’s your sign:

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Mitt Romney made it official this morning, he is running for the Senate seat currently held by retiring Orrin Hatch.

FUBAR.

Mittens confirmed his plans Friday in an online video. Romney is the epicenter of anti-MAGA and has continued to be a favored son of the GOPe chamber of commerce republican apparatus. A failed presidential candidate with a severely vindictive disposition cloaked in parseltonue and decepticon skin.

Unfortunately, Romney is considered a heavy favorite for the Senate seat held by Orrin Hatch.

President-Elect Donald Trump took Mitt Romney to dinner this evening in New York City.  As anticipated, the MSM turned the dinner into the primary event for the evening’s media coverage.  Following the dinner, Mitt Romney spoke to the press in the lobby of Trump Tower:

President Elect Donald Trump takes Mitt Romney to dinner at Jean Georges in New York City accompanied by Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
Mr. Trump is such a nice man.

CNN’s Jim Acosta is a media mole inside the restaurant, tweeting pictures, a play-by-play and openly spying on the Trump executive dinner discussion:
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Mitt Romney spotted in JFK tonight waiting in the cab line:

Wheelbarrow duty awaits: (more…)

Good stuff:

I doubt you could find a more apropos contrast than today with Donald Trump campaigning in Tampa Florida and Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, while the insufferable old GOPe represented by Mitt Romney hole up in an exclusive and indulgent mountain top enclave…. while decrying the audacity of the vulgarian insurgency.
Here’s the ball cap clad blue collar businessman in Pennsylvania delivering a speech with his plane as the backdrop.  Think about it:

“His Plane”, the result of his effort, his acumen, his work ethic and his determination.
He’s effectively won the nomination.  The convention still a month away.  It’s mid June, and yet there’s Trump busting his butt on the campaign trail, visiting key battleground states and fighting for every possible voter.
On this exact day four years earlier, presumptive republican nominee Mitt Romney was taking a few weeks off, lounging and relaxing at the spa amid the white wine spritzer crowd – having determined the visits to the unwashed masses were no longer necessary.
Not Donald Trump. Not 2016.  Not this guy… Our candidate is sweating his ass off fighting against every possible adversary while the ankle biting Romney loyalists sip summer cocktails chilled with frozen artesian rain water. (more…)

It does not matter whether the Anti-Trumpist of the day emanates from Washington DC (congress), from media (punditry), or from the special interest groups doing the bidding of Wall Street (US CoC), the ultimate thread which connects them all is money. Lots, and lots, of money. These are financial interests.
Not meaning to be so simplistic, but it’s always about the money. Behind every globalist word, behind every globalist ideology, behind the convenient use of pop culture – you find the motives of power interests all circle around money.
Corporate media does an effective job promoting opinion that serves their interests. Admitting this is not cynicism, it is our reality. Controversies are used as tools, simply intended to sway opinion and applied when needed to serve those interests.
That is what they do.  That’s what this is.  That’s all this is.
Think about the current pearl clutching class of DC congress critters, in conjunction with the recently rolled out Mitt Romney approach, aghast with what they call Trump’s racism; or more recently with Romney’s new talking point: “trickle down racism“…
Contrast the accusation against the reality of the GOPe behavior in the Mississippi 2014 primary where race was specifically used BY THEM to retain Thad Cochran’s seat in the Senate.  Was mittens concerned about McConnell’s use of race to advance the GOPe objectives?
Nah, not so much.  Funny that.
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The Washington Post reports today that Ruth Guerra, RNC Hispanic Media Director, has resigned and will be replaced by Jeb Bush GOPe operative and campaign adviser Helen Aguirre Ferre.
Leaving the RNC Ruth Guerra will now go to American Action Network an organization that aides enlistment of, and protection for, Republican House members.  Helen Ferre will take up the Media Director position in DC and work with GOPe/RNC leadership including Paul Ryan.

Understanding The Shift –  To understand what’s going on, a person must first remind themselves of the RNC position regarding Latino outreach and advocacy.
Take yourself mentally all the way back to the original 17 candidates for the Republican Nomination and you’ll note sixteen of them all aligned with the Official RNC Position, as outlined in the 2013 “autopsy”, regarding immigration.
Only one candidate, the vulgarian Donald Trump, defied Republican party orthodoxy and changed the entire conversation about the RNC immigration position.
Donald Trump came out strong mid-June on a central focus of ¹stopping illegal immigration, ²building a border wall, and ³officially deporting illegal immigrants.
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