The senator said he has "a hard time understanding" why Trump's legal issues don't "seem to be moving the needle" with more voters.

The senator said he has “a hard time understanding” why Trump’s legal issues don’t “seem to be moving the needle” with more voters.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) called out the majority of Iowa Republican caucus voters who baselessly believe that President Joe Biden did not win the 2020 election legitimately.

“I think a lot of people in this country are out of touch with reality and will accept anything Donald Trump tells them,” Romney, who announced in September that he is not seeking reelection, told CNN journalist Manu Raju on Wednesday.

About 65% of Iowa caucusgoers said they believe former President Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him, according to entrance poll data.

  • Billiam@lemmy.world
    62·
    10 months ago

    No, Mittens, some Republicans are out of touch with reality. Trump’s supporters definitely are.

      • ashok36@lemmy.world
        132·
        10 months ago

        I agree. Anyone that was a republican before Jan 6 and hasn’t changed their party affiliation is firmly in the “I’m ok with an orange faced dictator” boat.

        • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
          5·
          10 months ago

          The filter applies starting with Watergate, when Ford pardoned Nixon to be precise. Prior to that was the last time you can say the Republican party had any good in it.

          • ashok36@lemmy.world
            31·
            10 months ago

            I never had any doubt that, even if I didn’t vote for them or agree with their policies, at least Regan, and the bushes would willingly step down from the presidency if they lost. That’s the key difference.

        • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
          8·
          10 months ago

          They are like the high school seniors who have figured out that they’ll never get into college or get a good job. They are going to screw things up for everyone else, because what else is there?

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
        93·
        10 months ago

        I disagree. For example, a billionaire knows that Democrats want to raise his taxes and decrease his wealth. So it’s pragmatic for him to vote for Republicans, despite having so much money it ceases being a unit of exchange and becomes just a scoreboard.

        • doingless@lemmy.world
          171·
          10 months ago

          This would make sense if Democrats actually raised taxes significantly on the wealthy.

          • Billiam@lemmy.world
            21·
            10 months ago

            Democrats threaten to do it, Republicans absolutely won’t. Rationally GOP is the safer bet.

            edit: “Rationally” from a billionaire’s point of view, not from a social or moral one.