Richard Davis: Mitt Romney has a party to run for U.S. Senate. It just isn’t the Republican Party
Romney is a moderate who is no longer welcome in a party that has gone increasingly to the right. He would fit more comfortably in the United Utah Party.
FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016 file photo, former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney talks with reporters in New York. Former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden is encouraging former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to run for a senate seat in Utah currently held by Orrin Hatch if the senator decides to retire next year. Biden made the comment to Romney Friday, June 9, 2017 at a luxury resort in Utah, where Romney was hosting an annual invitation-only business and politics summit.. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)