Mitt Romney douses speak of convention-floor comeback
PHOENIX — Mitt Romney on Saturday did his best to crush speak of a tip devise to again commission him for president
“Please let me know who’s doing that and I’ll have a word with them. I’m not running,” Romney, a former Massachusetts administrator and a 2012 GOP presidential nominee, pronounced after strictly endorsing U.S. Sen. John McCain’s re-election during a convene in Mesa.
“There are a series of people who we support, who we consider would be superb presidents, either it’s Jeb Bush or Chris Christie or Marco Rubio or Lindsey Graham or Carly Fiorina. The list goes on and on. … We’re going to see how a routine works out and we design that we’re going to be really happy.”
Romney early on took his name out of row for a 2016 race, though BuzzFeed News reported Thursday on a “secret plan” by “wealthy donors and revolutionary loyalists” to commission him from a gathering floor. Other inhabitant reports have suggested that Republican investiture total are so rattled by a success of GOP front-runner Donald Trump’s alien debate that they are already fresh for a potentially nasty brokered convention.
“I’m streamer a ‘Draft Romney’ campaign,” quipped McCain, an Arizona Republican and a 2008 GOP White House nominee.
McCain and Romney share a eminence of being a dual Republicans who mislaid to President Obama: McCain in 2008, and Romney in 2012.
As he did during a 2010 coming during Mesa High School, Romney asked Arizona electorate to send McCain behind to a U.S. Senate for another six-year term.
McCain is “a good senator for Arizona,” though also “a vicious senator for America,” he said.
“What America needs is some-more of John McCain conservatism — that’s what creates America great,” Romney told a throng of about 1,000 people. “This is a male who will do all in his energy to keep America safe.
“He is a lion in a Senate. He roars and people listen.”
McCain has been criticized as too magnanimous by some elements of a Arizona Republican Party, that rigourously censured him in 2014. This choosing cycle, McCain is confronting Kelli Ward, a Republican state senator from Lake Havasu City, and 3 other GOP rivals — Alex Meluskey of Scottsdale, David Pizer of Mayer and Clair Van Steenwyk of Sun City West — in Arizona’s 2016 GOP Senate primary.
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., is a heading claimant for a Democratic Senate nomination.
Both McCain and Romney have been on a receiving finish this year of potshots from Trump, a luminary billionaire who has surfaced inhabitant GOP polls for months. And a dual have criticized Trump, too.
Trump and McCain intent in a high-profile argument in that Trump stoked debate by insulting a former prisoner-of-war McCain’s standing as a fight hero. He also has regularly slammed Romney for floating a 2012 choosing opposite Obama.
Romney pronounced he has certainty in his party’s presidential-nomination process.
“In a months ahead, you’re going to find that a American people do what they typically do, that is opinion for people who call on a best of a American people,” Romney said. “We demeanour for the leaders to call us to be larger than we differently competence be, and that’s what we’re going to find in the nominee.”
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