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Romney was the only Republican senator to vote twice to impeach Trump. How Romney went from Republican standard-bearer to outlier coincided with Trump’s takeover of the GOP and the rise of the populist, anti-elite movement he leads. He said the United states would be better served if Democratic President Joe Biden, 80, and Trump, 77, stepped aside from the 2024 campaign. The nation’s many challenges call for a younger generation of leaders, the 76-year-old Romney said in his announcement Wednesday. Today, he is stepping back believing that Trump, who did become the 45th president in 2016 and is the party’s front-runner for the 2024 nomination, has led the GOP and the country away from some of their most cherished constitutional principles. He entered Election Day of 2012 at the doorstep of becoming the nation’s 45th president. Mitt Romney’s career in business and politics included co-founding a private equity firm, being the savior of the Salt Lake City Olympics, serving as governor of Massachusetts and winning the GOP presidential nomination.

John McCain, an unflinching Trump critic, died. Senate in 2018, condemning the “flagrant disregard of truth and decency.” That same year, Arizona Sen. House primary in Wyoming last year Jeff Flake of Arizona opted not to run again for the U.S. Liz Cheney, who has declared it her mission to ensure Trump never returns to the Oval Office, was ousted in her U.S.

In following a path forged by his father, sometimes with eerie similarities, Mitt Romney became the latest in a line of prominent establishment Republicans who pushed back against Donald Trump’s vision for the party, only to become isolated. In eras 50 years apart, George and Mitt Romney found themselves isolated in a GOP increasingly uninterested in their brand of genteel, country-club conservatism.

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