Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney is warning that President Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign focus on the January 6 riot is beating a “dead political horse.”
Biden delivered the first speech of his re-election campaign on Friday, taking direct aim at former President Donald Trump. Trump is the favorite to win the GOP nomination for president in 2024, though the first primary contest in Iowa has yet to take place.
During his speech, Biden continually hit on Trump’s alleged role in the January 6 riot and compared Trump’s rhetoric since to that of the Nazis. Romney, a moderate Republican and vocal Trump critic, said that Biden’s focus on the January 6 riot of three years ago is a political loser.
“As a Biden campaign theme, I think the threat to democracy pitch is a bust,” Romney told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/us/politics/biden-speech-trump-jan-6.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> in a text. “Jan. 6 will be four years old by the election. People have processed it, one way or another. Biden needs fresh material, a new attack, rather than kicking a dead political horse.”
Biden characterized Trump as an authoritarian and a threat to the United States.
“Three years ago tomorrow, we saw with our own eyes the violent mob stormed the United States Capitol. It was almost in disbelief as you first turned on the television,” Biden <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-speech-valley-forge-trump-campaign-bda2293cac2b30e49157c2e6fb256d64" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Friday. “For the first time in our history, insurrectionists had come to stop the peaceful transfer, transfer of power in America. First time.”
“It was among the worst derelictions of duty by a president in American history. An attempt to overturn a free and fair election by force and violence. A record 81 million people voted for my candidacy and to end his presidency,” Biden said of Trump’s handling of the riot. The president said Trump orchestrated the riot in a last-ditch effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election after exhausting “every legal avenue.”
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Despite Biden’s amped-up rhetoric surrounding the riot, politicos and lawmakers are skeptical whether hammering Trump on January 6 will be a political winner. In recent months, Trump’s approval rating has caught up with Biden’s as Americans’ worries grow over issues such as the economy, immigration, and crime.
Trump blasted Biden over his speech last week. Trump said that Biden is threatening America through incompetence in the Oval Office.
“Joe Biden is the worst president in the history of the United States — he is incompetent, he is crooked, and in many respects, he is Benedict Arnold,” Trump said, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-fires-back-says-biden-true-threat-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>. “He is destroying our country like no one else has done before.”

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Romney Warns Biden Against Running On January 6: ‘Kicking A Dead Political Horse’

Romney Warns Biden Against Running On January 6: ‘Kicking A Dead Political Horse'

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mitt-romney" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mitt Romney</a> (R-UT) slammed President Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, during an interview over the weekend while talking about how he has benefitted from his father&#8217;s last name.
Romney made the remarks during a Sunday appearance on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; with host Kristen Welker while discussing the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-file-new-criminal-case-against-hunter-biden-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nine new tax charges</a> facing the president&#8217;s son.
&#8220;His lawyer said that if his name was anything other than Biden, the charges would not have been brought,&#8221; Welker said. &#8220;What&#8217;s your reaction to that?&#8221;
Romney responded, &#8220;Well, if his name were anything other than Biden, he wouldn&#8217;t have been able to bilk millions of dollars from foreign entities, so let&#8217;s start there.&#8221;
&#8220;And not only did he take all this money from foreign entities, trading on his father&#8217;s name, which is ugly and unsavory, he then didn&#8217;t pay taxes on it, according to the prosecutors,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We&#8217;ll see if they can prove that case. But if they can, he violated U.S. law and should be severely punished for having done so.&#8221;
Romney later said that he has not seen any evidence that President Biden has committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
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&#8220;Look, fortunately for most people, we&#8217;re not responsible for the misdeeds of our kids, and grandkids, and great-grandkids. Nothing in my family I&#8217;m embarrassed about, but President Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter, has obviously been a very unsavory person and has had some extremely damaged personal foibles, including a drug habit and so forth. That&#8217;s not President Biden. And we&#8217;re not going to impeach someone because of the sins of their kids.&#8221;
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Mitt Romney Torches Hunter Biden After Lawyer Claims He's A Victim

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-oprah-winfrey-takes-scary-tumble-on-stage-in-middle-of-speech-about-balance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oprah Winfrey</a> hit back at a recent claim made by Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) in a new biography, &#8220;Romney: A Reckoning&#8221; — namely that she had wanted to run for president in 2020.
The 69-year-old talk show host said through a spokesperson that she &#8220;never considered running&#8221; for the top office after Romney told the author of the bio that he got a call from the actress (who&#8217;s a Democrat) suggesting that they should run together &#8220;to save the country,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/oprah-winfrey-disputes-mitt-romney-claim-2020-election-ticket-1235620134/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood Reporter</a> reported.
&#8220;In November 2019, Ms. Winfrey called Senator Romney to encourage him to run on an Independent ticket,&#8221; the spokesperson told the outlet. &#8220;She was not calling to be part of the ticket and was never considering running herself.&#8221;
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Oprah Winfrey Disputes Mitt Romney&#8217;s Claim that She Asked to Join Him on a Unity Presidential Ticket <a href="https://t.co/K48ZdaKwCI">https://t.co/K48ZdaKwCI</a>
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The comments came after <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/10/16/oprah-mitt-romney-trump-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a> reported that the author of the book, veteran political journalist McKay Coppins, said Romney told her that he got a call from Winfrey that the two should form a unity ticket to stop former President Donald Trump&#8217;s reelection.
Romney told Coppins that he dismissed the idea, believing that their joining forces would ultimately help Trump, the outlet noted.
Despite Winfrey&#8217;s recent claims, she has never shied away from politics, even publicly endorsing former President Barack Obama in 2008, the outlet noted.
In October 2019, Winfrey made it clear she wanted to see Disney CEO Bob Iger run for president and said she would go door-to-door to make it happen, following then-former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/politics/joe-biden-2020-announcement.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a> in April 2019 that he would run, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oprah-winfrey-jennifer-garner-push-disney-ceo-bob-iger-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Speaking at the Save the Children Centennial Celebration: Once in a Lifetime gala in Los Angeles, the former TV host presented Iger with the Centennial Award.
While presenting the honor, Winfrey told Iger that she &#8220;was hoping that by this time in early fall, I would be knocking on doors in Des Moines, wearing an &#8216;Iger 2020&#8217; t-shirt. Because I really do believe that Bob Iger&#8217;s guidance and decency is exactly what the country needs right now.&#8221;
&#8220;But since my canvassing Iger strategy doesn&#8217;t seem to be in the cards, I&#8217;m happy to be here with all of you to honor a man who has devoted himself to actually lifting the spirits of children all over the world,&#8221; she added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oprah-winfrey-sparks-online-debate-after-suggesting-gift-that-costs-like-a-hundred-and-some-dollars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oprah Winfrey Sparks Online Debate After Suggesting Gift That Costs &#8216;Like A Hundred And Some Dollars&#8217;</a>

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate">Senate</a> Majority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-schumer">Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY) and other members of a congressional delegation sheltered for safety as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hamas">Hamas</a> attacked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel">Israel</a> on Sunday, the top lawmaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-schumer">announced</a>.
In a post to X, Schumer shared a photo of himself, Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mitt-romney">Mitt Romney</a> (R-UT), and others hunkering down in a cramped space.
&#8220;While in Tel Aviv today, our delegation was rushed to a shelter to wait out rockets sent by Hamas. It shows you what Israelis have to go through. We must provide Israel with the support required to defend itself,&#8221; Schumer said.
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While in Tel Aviv today, our delegation was rushed to a shelter to wait out rockets sent by Hamas. It shows you what Israelis have to go through. We must provide Israel with the support required to defend itself. <a href="https://t.co/wS3kq6xFVJ">pic.twitter.com/wS3kq6xFVJ</a>
&mdash; Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1713543421053313368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Schumer <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/schumer-to-lead-bipartisan-group-of-senators-to-israel-to-show-unwavering-u-s-support">led a bipartisan group of senators</a> to Israel over the weekend in a show of support one week after Hamas launched deadly terrorist attacks on Israel. Now, Israeli forces are engaged in open warfare against Hamas in Gaza.
Other senators who joined Schumer and Romney on the trip <a href="https://twitter.com/usembassyjlm/status/1713553646321840459">included</a> Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA). They met with Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog, who thanked the congressional delegation for their support.
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This morning I welcomed a bipartisan solidarity delegation of US Senators led by Senate Majority Leader <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenSchumer</a>, along with <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorRomney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenatorRomney</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/SenMarkKelly?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenMarkKelly</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/SenJackyRosen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenJackyRosen</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BillCassidy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillCassidy</a>. They came to stand with the people of Israel and to make clear that when it comes to the… <a href="https://t.co/MHScbKng30">pic.twitter.com/MHScbKng30</a>
&mdash; יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog) <a href="https://twitter.com/Isaac_Herzog/status/1713453265734480202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The congressional delegation is &#8220;having good, productive meetings with Israeli leaders,&#8221; Schumer <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1713558402343825732">said</a> in another post to X. &#8220;I&#8217;ll lead the effort in the US Senate to provide Israel with the support required to defend itself from this monstrous attack.&#8221;
A third <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1713611078574145658">post</a> from Schumer said, &#8220;In Israel, we met with families of the victims of this brutal attack by Hamas, families who didn&#8217;t know if their loved ones were alive, families whose loved ones were taken hostage. Their stories moved us. We stand with Israel. We won&#8217;t stop working to bring the hostages home.&#8221;
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In Israel, we met with families of the victims of this brutal attack by Hamas, families who didn&#39;t know if their loved ones were alive, families whose loved ones were taken hostage. Their stories moved us. We stand with Israel. We won&#39;t stop working to bring the hostages home. <a href="https://t.co/6g7M18fhzW">pic.twitter.com/6g7M18fhzW</a>
&mdash; Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1713611078574145658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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At least two other members of Congress — Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cory-booker">Cory Booker</a> (D-NJ) and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) — took shelter in Israel when Hamas attacked last weekend and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-senator-took-shelter-in-israel-when-hamas-attacked">have since left the country</a>.
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Officials have reported more than 1,300 people in Israel have been killed in the attacks and roughly 3,200 more injured.  At least 27 Americans died in the attacks. Dozens of others are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/08/europe/israel-hostages-hamas-what-we-know-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believed to have been taken hostage</a> by Hamas, with U.S. citizens believed to be among them.
In addition to efforts to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hamas-impeding-evacuation-of-americans-from-gaza-to-egypt-biden-adviser-says">assist U.S. citizens in fleeing Gaza</a>, officials have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-to-evacuate-americans-wanting-to-leave-israel-by-sea-embassy-says">working to help</a> Americans evacuate Israel as its forces fight Hamas and Hezbollah <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/one-killed-in-renewed-hezbollah-missile-attacks-idf-restricts-lebanon-border-area/">attacks</a> Israel from the Lebanon border.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken <a href="https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-and-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-after-their-meeting-2/">traveled</a> to Israel and other countries in the region to discuss the terrorist attacks and seek ways to <a href="https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1713242607776641529">avoid escalating</a> the conflict.

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Sen. Mitt Romney, 76, the GOP presidential nominee who lost the 2012 election to Barack Obama and later became a United States senator from Utah in 2018, said he will not seek a second term in the Senate in 2024.
Interviewed by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/13/mitt-romney-senate-reelection/">The Washington Post</a>, Romney cited his disappointment in the GOP-controlled House and the prospect that either President Biden or former President Trump would be elected in 2024.
“It’s very difficult for the House to operate, from what I can tell,” he declared, “and two, and perhaps more importantly, we’re probably going to have either Trump or Biden as our next president. And Biden is unable to lead on important matters and Trump is unwilling to lead on important matters.”
Romney asserted that neither Biden nor Trump was serious about reducing the deficit, saying, “You’ve got both Biden and Trump saying we won’t touch entitlements. How irresponsible is that!”
Romney said he would not publicly support any of the GOP presidential candidates challenging Trump, opining, “I doubt my support will mean anything positive to any of the candidates at the finish line. I’m not looking to get involved in that.”
“It’s pretty clear that the party is inclined to a populist demagogue message,” he said, adding, “If it can change in the direction of a populist it can change back in the direction of my wing of the Republican Party.”
Romney, who served as governor of Massachusetts, was not the first member of his family to run for president; his father George, who served as governor of Michigan, was a prime candidate in 1968, losing the nomination to Richard Nixon. As a senator, Romney voted to impeach Trump twice, incurring the enmity of Trump loyalists. In January 2019, he <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romney-the-president-shapes-the-public-character-of-the-nation-trumps-character-falls-short/2019/01/01/37a3c8c2-0d1a-11e9-8938-5898adc28fa2_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> of Trump:
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After he became the nominee, I hoped his campaign would refrain from resentment and name-calling. It did not. When he won the election, I hoped he would rise to the occasion. His early appointments of Rex Tillerson, Jeff Sessions, Nikki Haley, Gary Cohn, H.R. McMaster, Kelly and Mattis were encouraging. But, on balance, his conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions last month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office.
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“With the nation so divided, resentful and angry, presidential leadership in qualities of character is indispensable,” he continued. “And it is in this province where the incumbent’s shortfall has been most glaring.”
Commenting on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy telling House committees to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/12/mccarthy-biden-impeachment/?itid=lk_inline_manual_33" target="_blank" rel="noopener">begin an impeachment inquiry</a> into President Biden, he stated, “This is not an impeachment. This is an inquiry, and I have heard no allegations that rise to the high-crimes-and-misdemeanors standard of the Constitution.”
“I think it’s of paramount importance to maintain our commitment to the Constitution and the liberal constitutional order,” he stated. “And I know that there are some in MAGA world who would like Republican rule, or authoritarian rule by Donald Trump. But I think they may be forgetting that the majority of people in America would not be voting for Donald J. Trump. The majority would probably be voting for the Democrats.”
He concluded, “I do believe that our institutions, while under constant barrage, are strong, that our court system is strong and that, fundamentally, the American people stand by the Constitution and the constitutional norms.”

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Republicans hold governorships and legislative majorities in 22 states, compared to 17 for Democrats and 11 states in which government is divided. Yet GOP-run states often do not implement policies aligned with their party. The following is the third in a four-part series on Republican-dominated state legislatures and how they lead.
Even as Democrats push far-Left policies whenever they have a bare majority, some of the most Republican-dominated states govern in a moderate way — with a Daily Wire analysis of voting records finding that the larger the Republican majority in a state legislature, the more moderate those Republicans behave on average.
Deep-red Utah and Wyoming, which sent Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney to Congress, also send moderate Republicans to their own statehouses. They&#8217;re not the only states in which Republicans, despite holding a near-monopoly on state policy making, often reject such basic conservative initiatives as school choice and restrictions on abortion. Critics wonder why states with GOP legislative supermajorities don&#8217;t wield their power the way their deep-blue counterparts like California do.
It&#8217;s not that people necessarily want red states to go to extremes, which can backfire. Rather, they object to examples that are far from that: Louisiana&#8217;s Republican House speaker was elected with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/19-statehouses-have-bigger-republican-majorities-than-florida-this-group-is-making-sure-they-act-like-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more Democrat votes</a> than Republican ones; the South Carolina legislature kicked its most conservative members out of the Republican caucus; and Wyoming’s speaker killed a school-choice proposal that is standard conservative fare, The Daily Wire reported earlier in this series exploring the importance of state-level policy.
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Why Republicans in deep-red states would be less Republican than their counterparts elsewhere is one of the most baffling mysteries in politics. How can it be that residents of deep-red states elect moderate members time and again? And what can they do to ensure that their state lawmakers accurately reflect their views?
“We&#8217;ve never been outvoted by Democrats, but we lose all the time,&#8221; Alan Seabaugh, a Louisiana state legislator, told The Daily Wire. &#8220;And it&#8217;s because we&#8217;re outvoted by RINOs. It&#8217;s because of people who want their constituents to think of them as conservative, they run as conservatives, and then they get to Baton Rouge and they hope no one notices how they vote.&#8221;
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<h1>“The red states are actually the worst” when it comes to moderate Republicans. “A lot of Dems know they can’t get elected with a D next to their name, so they put an R next to their name and then vote like liberals.”</h1>
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In that red state, one problem is so-called “jungle primaries.” Back when Louisiana was controlled overwhelmingly by Democrats, Democrats implemented the system so that instead of having to face a Republican in the general election, the top two in the primary would advance, giving general election voters a choice between two Democrats. Now, the state is overwhelmingly conservative, but the same system remains in place. The state is so Republican that the top two vote-getters in the primary will often be a conservative Republican and a moderate one. In the general election, Democrats will vote for the more moderate candidate, alongside some Republicans, pushing him or her to victory.
“The people of Louisiana are very red. Donald Trump carried Louisiana by a bigger margin than Texas. But the jungle primary pushes everything to the middle,” Seabaugh said.
Other Republican states have a problem with open primaries. Whereas Democrat strongholds like the District of Columbia exclude Republicans from any meaningful impact in their elections, allowing only registered Democrats to vote in the party primary that essentially decides the race, Republican states have not done the same. Wyoming law makes it relatively easy for Democrats to vote in Republican primaries, and they do — with Democrat officials sometimes explicitly <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/democratic-lawmakers-encourage-wyoming-voters-change-parties-back/story?id=88109078">urging it</a>.
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Ten Republican states have fully-open primaries, while only four Democrat ones do. Six Democrat states have fully-closed primaries, while only three Republican ones do. The rest have more complicated rules falling somewhere in between, according to a Daily Wire analysis of <a href="https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/state-primary-election-types" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Council of State Legislatures</a> 2021 data.
Georgia has fully open primaries, as well as a runoff system that in multiple recent election cycles allowed a Democrat to head to the U.S. Senate even though a Republican got more votes in the general election.
Another factor is that in places where almost everyone identifies as Republican, people seeking power know that whatever their actual beliefs, they must put an R behind their name if they want to win. Given that few people pay attention to state races, many voters don’t notice the deception.
“The red states are actually the worst” when it comes to moderate Republicans, Andrew Roth, president of the State Freedom Caucus Network, told The Daily Wire. “A lot of Dems know they can’t get elected with a D next to their name, so they put an R next to their name and then vote like liberals.”
A less nefarious version of that is the fact that where being Republican is simply the default, people who are essentially apolitical identify as it because it’s just how they were brought up. Some candidates are community leaders like Boy Scout leaders and football coaches who know a lot of people in town, and want to take their involvement to the next level.
“The closer you get to the local level, the less party matters. Louisiana has been voting for Republicans in federal elections for decades, we just don’t necessarily elect conservatives at the state level,” Seabaugh said.
Then there’s the fact that many elected Republicans are remnants of the era when conservatives promoted business interests–even though corporations often now function as arms of the Left. When Georgia enacted voting reforms, driving the pressure against it were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-woke-corporations-who-condemned-georgia-while-still-doing-business-with-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">corporations</a> like Coca-Cola.
“When the stakeholders are small and there’s a limited media following it, the special interest groups are able to overpower it,” Thomas Bradbury, director of advocacy and policy at the American Conservative Union, told The Daily Wire. “Especially on some of the cultural issues, the Chamber of Commerce just has way too much power over some of these Republicans. That’s why you see people like [South Dakota Gov.] Kristi Noem <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservatives-blast-gop-gov-noem-for-refusing-to-sign-bill-protecting-girls-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">veto</a> the women’s sports bill.”
When Democrats wanted South Carolina to adopt a <a href="https://www.wbtw.com/news/state-regional-news/push-returns-for-south-carolina-to-add-hate-crime-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hate-crimes law</a> in February, it was corporations like Duke Energy who put the pressure on Republicans to acquiesce, arguing that &#8220;the lack of a hate crime law could hurt South Carolina’s recruitment and retention of businesses.&#8221; The debate came as state Republicans were courting an electric vehicle plant for which they earmarked $1.3 billion in government support last month.
Bradbury once served as an aide in the Missouri legislature. “We tried to take on special taxing districts where certain corporations would get full-on tax exemptions, which is very against free market principles and unfair,” he said. Republicans held a hearing where there were a few citizens and policy wonks speaking against the special treatment for corporations, “and then probably 55 paid lobbyists in the room opposing us. It’s amazing how much influence special interests have because these are part-time legislatures so the experts actually are the lobbyists.” 
Then there are those who go into the legislature as bona fide conservatives, but quickly give in to existing power structures, believing it’s just what they’re supposed to do, Louisiana lawmaker Danny McCormick told The Daily Wire.
“There’s a tremendous amount of pressure to give in to the establishment once you get down there. There’s a tremendous pressure to go along and get along, and they threaten you that you won’t get any bridges or money for roads if you don’t,” he said.
Part 1: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/19-statehouses-have-bigger-republican-majorities-than-florida-this-group-is-making-sure-they-act-like-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19 Statehouses Have Bigger Republican Majorities Than Florida. This Group Is Making Sure They Act Like It.</a>
Part 2: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-did-wyoming-kill-school-choice-deep-red-states-often-dont-act-like-it-data-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why Did Wyoming Kill School Choice? Deep-Red States Often Don’t Act Like It, Data Shows</a><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-legislatures-in-the-deep-red-states-that-sent-romney-and-cheney-to-washington-vote-like-liberals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ote Like Liberals’</a>
Part 4:<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/soros-gets-bang-for-buck-in-down-ballot-races-why-havent-conservatives-done-the-same"> Soros Gets Bang For Buck In Down-Ballot Races. Why Haven’t Conservatives Done The Same?</a>

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Why Legislatures In The Deep-Red States That Sent Romney And Cheney To Washington ‘Vote Like Liberals’

Why Legislatures In The Deep-Red States That Sent Romney And Cheney To Washington 'Vote Like Liberals'

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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) faced a number of questions after someone claimed to have found a &#8220;burner&#8221; Twitter account connected to her.
Niko House (@realnikohouse) replied to a few tweets posted by Ocasio-Cortez and got responses from a seemingly random account (@zazasmoka). He quickly noticed that when that account replied back, the responses were framed in first-person perspective — as if the person responding was the congresswoman herself.
&#8220;YOOOOO!!! AOC has burned accounts. I responded to one of her posts reminding her that she sends money to Nazis, and some random account responded to me speaking in first person as if I attacked them. Then that same person DELETED the tweet
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YOOOOO!!! AOC has burned accounts. I responded to one of her posts reminding her that she sends money to Nazis, and some random account responded to me speaking in first person as if I attacked them. Then that same person DELETED the tweets 😭🤣 <a href="https://t.co/GxwIWSPv6h">pic.twitter.com/GxwIWSPv6h</a>
&mdash; Joe Biden Hates Black People (@realnikohouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/realnikohouse/status/1642290924469334018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Closer scrutiny of the alleged &#8220;burner account&#8221; revealed that whoever was controlling the account was not just tweeting in defense of AOC — they were also tweeting death threats at The Daily Wire podcast host and &#8220;What Is a Woman?&#8221; creator Matt Walsh.
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Responding to a tweet from Walsh about the danger posed by the trans movement, @zazasmoka replied, &#8220;You are a hateful little freak and I can&#8217;t wait until you piss off a trans person that actually is as unhinged as you say they all are &#8230; can&#8217;t be a bigot if you&#8217;re no longer breathing.&#8221;
Walsh spoke up as well, asking Ocasio-Cortez to address the issue and condemn the rhetoric if the account was not, in fact, hers. &#8220;Hi @AOC, this isn&#8217;t you wishing death on me is it? Many are speculating that this is your burner account. You need to come out and denounce this kind of rhetoric or we can only assume that you support it.&#8221;
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Hi <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a>, this isn&#39;t you wishing death on me is it? Many are speculating that this is your burner account. You need to come out and denounce this kind of rhetoric or we can only assume that you support it. <a href="https://t.co/Ydr6jgY0DX">https://t.co/Ydr6jgY0DX</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1642930905936216064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene responded as well, tweeting, &#8220;This you @AOC? Zaza Demon is your burner account? That is a disturbing name. Excited to see an &#8216;unhinged trans&#8217; murder a member of the conservative press, Matt Walsh? Yes that is demonic so the name fits.&#8221;
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This you <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a>? 
Zaza Demon is your burner account? 
That is a disturbing name.
Excited to see an “unhinged trans” murder a member of the conservative press, Matt Walsh? 
Yes that is demonic so the name fits. <a href="https://t.co/llSMiivoz1">https://t.co/llSMiivoz1</a>
&mdash; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1642881630862753793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez did not respond to the tweets suggesting the account was hers — but if it was, she would certainly not be the first elected official to use an anonymous &#8220;burner account.&#8221; Senator <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/a-total-loser-romney-mocked-after-using-secret-twitter-account-to-defend-himself-report-suggests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mitt Romney</a> admitted to using a secret account — which Slate later reported was under the name Pierre Delecto — to &#8220;keep tabs on the political conversation.&#8221;

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Did you watch the State of the Union Tuesday night?
Now, there’s a lot we could chat about it — but to me the most interesting part of the night was the exchange between Representative George Santos (R-NY) and Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT).
There&#8217;s a lot I could say about president Biden’s SOTU address. It made me angry, for one — it was full of lies. Biden appears to be suffering from some early-stage dementia — that was apparent right out of the gate. We could discuss how he pretended that he wants to fight the fentanyl crisis even as he allowed the deadly drug to pour over our open borders.
We could talk about perhaps his most bizarre claim of all — that he’s some sort of anti-Big Pharma hero. Is this not the exact same guy that The Daily Wire had to fight because he tried to authorize the Labor Department to effectively mandate the vaccine into every single working individual’s arms in America?
Do you remember that? Don’t worry if you don’t, he probably doesn&#8217;t remember either.
Or we could touch upon him pretending that he&#8217;s sticking it to China.
Yeah, we sure showed them by allowing them to float a balloon, a spy balloon, for eight days across the entire contiguous United States!
Nope, sorry. I didn’t want to discuss any of that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-90-toxic-mom-culture-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on my show today</a>.
The best moment from the State of the Union was actually a little riff-raff that went on between Romney and Santos. Right at the beginning, the New York congressman and Utah senator exchanged some sharp words. The camera footage of the exchange was intense. 
Lip readers speculated that Romney told Santos he shouldn’t be at the address. Romney confirmed he did, in fact, dress down Santos — who has admitted to “embellishing” practically every aspect of his resume. 
“I didn&#8217;t expect that he&#8217;d be standing there trying to shake hands with every senator in the United States,” Romney told reporters while leaving the building. “That&#8217;s a given. And given the fact that he&#8217;s under ethics investigation, he should be sitting in the back row and staying quiet instead of parading in front of the president and the people coming into the room.” 
“If you look at like he said, he says he knows that he embellished his record. Look, embellishing is saying you got an A when he had an A-minus. Lying is saying you graduated from a college you didn&#8217;t even attend. He shouldn&#8217;t be in Congress,” he continued. “And they&#8217;re going to go through the process and hopefully get him out but he shouldn&#8217;t be there.”
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REPORTER: &quot;You just said you [Santos] don&#39;t belong here&#8230;Why did you say that?&quot;
ROMNEY: &quot;I didn&#39;t expect that he&#39;d be standing there trying to shake hands with every Senator and the President&#8230;He shouldn&#39;t be there&#8230;If he had any shame at all, he wouldn&#39;t be there.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/yBIxnWNLDd">pic.twitter.com/yBIxnWNLDd</a>
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So, is Romney wrong here? 
It certainly seems as if Santos has been caught lying about virtually everything — from the schools he attended to his employment history, and his family background, and even whether or not he was a drag queen in Brazil. 
This guy is definitely shady. And it is right that there is an ethics probe against him. There is some hilarity to the fact that Santos has made it this far.
Yet, then again, Mitt Romney is also Mitt Romney. So this is a weird circumstance of the pot calling the kettle black in many ways.
Mitt Romney says, “Oh, this guy&#8217;s a fraud. This guy&#8217;s lying. This guy&#8217;s raised money on these lies and now he&#8217;s here in Congress.”
OK, Mitt Romney, are you kidding me? You raised a lot more money on the basis of your lies.
You had people all around America actually believing that you would be a strong conservative candidate for president in 2012. In turn, those people gave you hundreds of millions toward your campaign, only to watch you lose and then turn into a leftist.
With regard to future legislation, I&#8217;m going to guess that Santos will vote more conservatively than Romney will.
But for Romney — people invested in him, and then everything he has done in Congress has benefited the Left. The Democrats can always count on Romney&#8217;s vote. Trump endorsed him in 2012 and in his Senate bid. Trump’s endorsement in 2018 truly sealed the deal for him.
And then what did he do once in power? He fought Trump every chance he got. He voted for him to be impeached and literally has spent his time opposing the MAGA agenda for nearly six years straight.
Why? Because Romney is a fraud. He lies and he collects money. So in this circumstance, nobody is really the hero — least of all Romney. 
Now, if anybody else went up and said something to Santos? I might be able to respect it, but not you, Mitt Romney, not you.

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Really? That Fraud Mitt Romney Is The One Who Stood Up To George Santos? 

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Utah GOP Senator Mitt Romney, who has been suspected of being <a href="https://heritageaction.com/scorecard/members/R000615/117">squishy</a> on conservative issues, has refused to endorse fellow Utah GOP Senator Mike Lee, a strong conservative in his re-election campaign, outraging his fellow GOP senators.
Lee, an expert on the Constitution, is facing Evan McMullin in November. McMullin ran a campaign in 2016 that likely siphoned votes from Donald Trump in his battle with Hillary Clinton.
As for McMullin, a Washington Post columnist <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/18/evan-mcmullin-tries-thread-needle-utah/">acknowledged</a> last February that after his campaign to derail Trump, McMullin “became an independent and founded a political organization called Stand Up Republic that worked to defeat far-right candidates in GOP primaries and to elect moderate Democrats like President Biden.”
“He considers both friends, so I don’t expect him to make an endorsement in this race,” a “source close to Romney” told the Post columnist.
On September 9, Lee posted a list of the GOP senators who supported him for re-election. Every GOP senator was listed except one: Romney. “I am grateful for the support of my Senate colleagues. Together, we will continue the fight for the American people. The failures of the Biden Administration and Democrats have damaged our nation for long enough,” Lee tweeted.
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I am grateful for the support of my Senate colleagues. Together, we will continue the fight for the American people. The failures of the Biden Administration and Democrats have damaged our nation for long enough. <a href="https://t.co/EyeeWg7ySg">pic.twitter.com/EyeeWg7ySg</a>
&mdash; Mike Lee (@MikeLeeforUtah) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeLeeforUtah/status/1568250594225434624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Lee’s campaign spokesman stated that the senators on the list had either publicly endorsed Lee, donated to his campaign, or expressed support for him, Deseret News <a href="https://www.deseret.com/utah/2022/9/9/23345036/mike-lee-support-republican-senators-except-mitt-romney-not-endorse-evan-mcmullin">reported</a>.
Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/29/gop-senators-baffled-by-mitt-romneys-ploy-to-oust-mike-lee-and-maybe-thwart-a-majority/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke</a> to various GOP senators about Romney’s refusal to back Lee. One told her, “I respect [Romney], and I understand that each state has its own dynamics, but I do not understand why he is remaining neutral. Whatever our differences, we all try to support each other around election time.”
“We should not have to be worried about Utah in any way. I don’t know what he thinks he’s doing, but it’s not going over well, particularly with the [senators] who are up for chairmanships,” another senator told her.
The Washington Post’s Henry Olsen <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/22/mitt-romneys-refusal-endorse-mike-lee-is-betrayal-his-party/">pointed out</a> as far back as March, “It should be a no-brainer for Romney to endorse his fellow Republican. Regaining control of the Senate is one of the GOP’s most important objectives, and that means marshaling every conceivable vote to make that happen.”
On July 4, America’s Independence Day, Romney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mitt-romney-praises-genuinely-good-man-biden-who-once-accused-him-of-wanting-to-enslave-blacks">praised</a> President Joe Biden while disparaging former President Donald Trump, writing in The Atlantic, “President Joe Biden is a genuinely good man, but he has yet been unable to break through our national malady of denial, deceit, and distrust. A return of Donald Trump would feed the sickness, probably rendering it incurable.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mitt-romney-praises-genuinely-good-man-biden-who-once-accused-him-of-wanting-to-enslave-blacks">Mitt Romney Praises ‘Genuinely Good Man’ Biden, Who Once Accused Him Of Wanting To Enslave Blacks</a>

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mitt-romney">Mitt Romney</a> praised ‘genunely good man&#8217; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">President Joe Biden</a> &#8212; who once accused him of plotting to put black people &#8216;back in chains&#8217; &#8212; in an Independence Day column for the far-left online magazine <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/the-atlantic">The Atlantic</a>.
The failed 2012 presidential candidate and Utah Republican&#8217;s &#8220;pox on both their houses&#8221; approach blasted Democrats for blowing out the national debt and opening the border and ripped Republicans for downplaying the January 6 Capitol riots and climate change. The nation needs a true leader, Romney wrote in the magazine owned by late Apple founder Steve Jobs&#8217; widow, billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs.
&#8220;President Joe Biden is a genuinely good man, but he has yet been unable to break through our national malady of denial, deceit, and distrust,&#8221; Romney wrote. &#8220;A return of Donald Trump would feed the sickness, probably rendering it incurable.&#8221;
Romney&#8217;s basic premise was that Americans on both sides of the aisle are in denial an ill-prepared to confront the challenges that confront us. But while his over-the-top praise for Biden might surprise some, his scathing attack on Trump shouldn&#8217;t.
Romney has never made a secret of his dislike for Trump. During the 2016 presidential race, he called Trump a &#8220;phony&#8221; and a &#8220;fraud.&#8221; After he was elected to the Senate in 2018, Romney twice voted to impeach Trump, first for allegedly withholding aid from Ukraine in order to pressure Kyiv into investigating the Biden family&#8217;s deals there and then over Trump&#8217;s alleged role in the January 6 riots.
Twitter users noted that Biden is not likely to return Romney&#8217;s kind words. In 2012, then-Vice President Biden accused Romney of wanting to enslave black Americans.
&#8220;Romney wants to let the—he said in the first 100 days, he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules –unchain Wall Street,&#8221; Biden told a mostly minority crowd in Danville, Virginia. &#8220;They’re going to put y’all back in chains!&#8221;
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Joe Biden said during a campaign speech that Mitt Romney would re-enslave African Americans. <a href="https://t.co/1hIbxy97ky">https://t.co/1hIbxy97ky</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1544023197036810242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is why most Republicans can&#8217;t stand Mitt Romney,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1543984575336046593?s=20&amp;t=4Bs0R7Phbf0eATzUXwb4Zg">tweeted BonchieRedState</a>. &#8220;Forget the predictable hysteria about Donald Trump for a moment. Presenting Biden as some kind of innocent bystander who just hasn&#8217;t been able to &#8220;break through&#8221; is nuts. Absolutely nuts.&#8221;
Romney described the kind of president he hopes wins the White House in 2024, but didn&#8217;t name names.
&#8220;I hope for a president who can rise above the din to unite us behind the truth,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Several contenders with experience and smarts stand in the wings; we intently watch to see if they also possess the requisite character and ability to bring the nation together in confronting our common reality.&#8221;

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Former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner (D) complained on Wednesday that Republicans were doing more to try to outlaw abortion than they were to address the shortage of baby formula.
&#8220;There’s a national shortage of baby formula. That means babies are going hungry. Instead of taking care of our nation’s children, conservatives are worried about banning abortions. Sickening,&#8221; she tweeted.
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There’s a national shortage of baby formula. That means babies are going hungry. Instead of taking care of our nation’s children, conservatives are worried about banning abortions. Sickening.
&mdash; Nina Turner (@ninaturner) <a href="https://twitter.com/ninaturner/status/1524406240050302979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Critics were quick to point out that in continuing to stand up against abortion, Republicans were quite literally fighting to keep babies alive — while others pointed out that Turner&#8217;s pro-abortion stance did the opposite, regardless of her position on solving the baby formula shortage.
&#8220;Right&#8230; Apparently, killing children while handing more power over to a currently Democrat-controlled disaster of a govt is somehow &#8216;taking care of children&#8217; in Nina&#8217;s fantasy land,&#8221; Leonydus Johnson tweeted in response.
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&mdash; Leonydus Johnson (leave/me/alone) (@LeonydusJohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeonydusJohnson/status/1524410505758134273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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But Turner was not the only one to tie the baby formula shortage to the recently-leaked early opinion draft indicating that the Supreme Court might be poised to overturn landmark abortion cases Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
&#8220;Roe v Wade going away while there’s a massive baby formula shortage adds a level of cruelty that can only be described as American,&#8221; Ron Placone <a href="https://twitter.com/RonPlacone/status/1524243089254060035">tweeted</a>.
Melanie Dione <a href="https://twitter.com/thegates0fmel/status/1524450340946522113">asserted her own theory</a>, adding, &#8220;Furthering the proof that we all died when Prince died and this is hell, don’t let today’s vote on codifying Roe v. Wade distract you from the fact that there is a baby formula shortage in several states.&#8221;
&#8220;The writers really jumped the shark when they overturned Roe during a baby formula shortage all in one episode,&#8221; illustrator Lauren Walsh <a href="https://twitter.com/LaurenWalshArt/status/1524335850544316420">complained</a>.
&#8220;Really wild how there is a formula shortage at the exact same time Roe v. Wade is under attack. &#8216;We don&#8217;t want y&#8217;all to have abortions, but we&#8217;re also not going to ensure the babies we&#8217;re gonna force you to have can eat now or in the future&#8217; is truly remarkable! In a bad way!&#8221; another <a href="https://twitter.com/pleasantlytwstd/status/1524440715924701185">argued</a>.
Anna James Zeigler pointed out the irony, noting that the people complaining about the juxtaposition of the two issues were admitting that abortion ends a human life.
&#8220;&#8216;How can you consider striking Roe when there&#8217;s a formula shortage!?&#8217; implies the obvious: an abortion ends a life, the life of a human who will need nourishment,&#8221; she <a href="https://twitter.com/ajzeigler/status/1524383116877606912">said</a>.
However, Republicans have been working in Congress to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/amid-baby-formula-shortages-republicans-introduce-legislation-strengthening-domestic-infant-formula-supply?%3Futm_source=twitter">address the shortage</a>. As The Daily wire reported earlier this week, &#8220;Republicans Randy Feenstra of Iowa and Stephanie Bice of Oklahoma introduced the Formula Act on Wednesday morning, legislation that would direct Food and Drug Administration (FDA) &#8216;to establish and communicate to Congress clear standards by which it domestically regulates infant formula.&#8217; The lawmakers said these standards could also be applied to imported foreign infant formula, allowing Americans access to more available formula brands.&#8221;
Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-am-deeply-concerned-romney-letter-questions-fda-on-nationwide-baby-formula-shortage?%3Futm_source=twitter">wrote a letter</a> to the FDA, addressing a recent recall and what could be done to ramp up production and availability of infant formulas.

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Nina Turner Complains That Republicans Are Fighting Abortion When There's A Formula Shortage

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Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) made good on his promise to write a <a href="https://www.romney.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Romney-Letter-to-FDA-USDA-Infant-Formula.pdf">letter</a> to the FDA regarding the nationwide infant formula shortage.
The letter references the “urgent” need for formula that has “serious implications” for “infant health.&#8221; The senator expressed how he was “deeply concerned” for the situation going forward. 
Romney referenced the infant formula recall at the Sturgis, Michigan, facility as well as deaths associated with contaminated products. The letter goes on to discuss concerns about the “formula product shortages affecting American families from the essential shutdown of the Sturgis facility.”
“The recall and shutdown affects affordability and availability of infant formula — several chain retailers are limiting the number of products per purchase to manage inventory and desperate families face skyrocketing costs through third-party sellers,” the letter continues. 
The document also notes, “Infant formulas are also not easily interchangeable: some infants develop allergies or sensitivities, and some infants require specific formulas based on medical conditions.”
After months of shortages, government officials and journalists are beginning to address the baby formula crisis publicly under mounting public pressure. Many of these public figures suggested it was a tragedy that funding was being directed to other issues when parents were struggling to feed their babies.
“Tennessee parents are struggling to find baby formula. What is Joe Biden doing to help families?” Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) <a href="https://twitter.com/marshablackburn/status/1523757309566283776?s=11&amp;t=nFNKM5oeY0Y5GAigpn8ghQ">tweeted</a> Monday.
“You can’t find baby formula in the United States right now but Congress is voting today to send $40 billion to Ukraine. Let’s put America First for a change,” Donald Trump Jr. <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1524020227176079361">posted</a>.
Meghan McCain wrote a scathing article for the Daily Mail, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10802001/MEGHAN-MCCAIN-Biden-administration-dragged-feet-shortage-life-sustaining-baby-formula.html">saying</a>, “If America&#8217;s supply of erectile dysfunction pills were at risk then our government would have snapped into action, but when it came to a mass shortage of life-sustaining baby formula this administration dragged its feet.”
Romney had previously vowed to send a letter to the FDA on the matter, which he followed through with Tuesday. 
“I’m very concerned about [the shortage],” Romney previously <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-fda-baby-formula_n_62797de0e4b0b7c8f087f399">said</a>, according to HuffPost. He said he is trying to understand “how they could make a decision about safety that apparently didn’t seem to include consideration about supply — because supply is also essential for the health of our children — and I can’t see how badly they misjudged, apparently, the setting that we’re in.”
Baby formula has been difficult to find since last summer amid supply chain issues that were affecting the food supply more broadly. This February, the problem became worse following recalls of Similac, Alimentum and EleCare brands from the Sturgis factory. At least four babies got sick and two died due to bacterial infection linked to that formula, which inspired the recall. 
The cause of deaths are still under investigation.
FOX 29 <a href="https://www.fox29.com/news/baby-formula-shortage-brands-sold-out">reported</a> that retail data firm Datasembly shows 40%-50% of major formula brands sold out last week in 26 states. The states most affected by the shortages are Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas.

‘I Am Deeply Concerned’: Romney Letter Questions FDA On Nationwide Baby Formula Shortage

Romney Letter Questions FDA On Nationwide Formula Shortage

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