safe for a governor to criticize president trump it s probably utah. thanks to all of you for joining us, and coming up, a dilemma for democrats, if they think the president is going low, should they go low too? the dividing line in the debate over civility, that s next. your acceptance is guaranteed. it s hard to believe, but i ve been talking about the colonial penn life insurance company for almost 25 years. so call now. call now. make the call now. i must have said call now hundreds of times. millions of people have already called.
me, he s campaigning in a barbecue joint. this is a little bit of déjà vu, i covered romney s presidential campaign, so this is of course as you point out, his return to the national stage after he lost in 2012, which is a fact that, you know, he s pretty quick to mention here, actually, and he is instead running for a lower office in the united states senate as one of 100 senators and he s campaigning here with his wife and one of his children. as you say, the question here, if mitt romney goes to washington, is how does he handle president trump? you may remember president trump endorsed him in a splashy event back in 2012, but then they proceeded to really go at it. now president trump has insulted romney publicly, romney called him a phony and a fraud. then of course he potentially wanted to be president trump s secretary of state. that didn t end up happening.
describing. how do you think that plays out? it depends on which mitt romney takes the senate seat, it depends on whether he he was out there leading the charge, or is it going to be the mitt romney that frankly crawled to trump s table to try to get secretary of state and ever since then, one day s critical and the next day he praises trump, which mitt romney is going to take that seat? this is his second temple. this will extend through president trump s second term if he gets one. and he ll be governor of a state where trump did quite badly. that state normally delivers 70% plus for a presidential candidate, trump got under 50%. that s what we re all waiting for, which mitt romney will appear in the u.s. senate. that s a fascinating point you raise there too, if there s one red state where maybe it s
an eye on, folks are voting in different time zones across the country right now. let s take you on a quick tour of what is happening and what we re going to be looking for tonight, the biggest name on the ballot, him romney, remember this guy, the 2012 republican nominee for president, the republican primary today in utah, romney the overwhelming favorite to win this race today. and mitt romneys like a rock star out there, will go to the senate. a guy, romney who just viciously denounced donald trump in 2016 and was viciously denounced back, he could be in the senate having to deal with president trump and president trump having to deal with him. so keeping an eye on that one. and present trump was in south carolina last night trying to rally support for this guy, henry mcmaster, for governor of south carolina. the sitting governor fell well below the required 50%, john
step of the way, because the senate, i m up on capitol hill every day and we have lost some of the great lions of the senate, john mccain has not been in the hallways, he s been somebody who s been very outspoken and critical of president trump, and for romney, it s going to be a test, he s going to be asked every day about the tweets, he of cour. so a lot of decisions kind of date to day for governor romney, perhaps senator. i m go to have to decide whether we call him governor or senator, he s been governor romney for those of us who have covered him for many years since he was governor of massachusetts. a lot of people having flash backs watching mitt romney campaigning on an election day. but this sets up a former presidential nominee, obviously all that history between romney and trump that kasie is