Who will replace Mitt Romney in the United States Senate?
Open Senate seats are rare. When they happen, a flurry of both well-known and completely unknown candidates seek the office.
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Open Senate seats are rare. When they happen, a flurry of both well-known and completely unknown candidates seek the office.
Most Republican voters said they are still undecided in the early poll.
Sen. Mitt Romney’s decision to not run for a second term leaves the playing field wide open for Utah Republicans who want to run for his Senate seat. “The people of Utah may not agree with me on all the issues or how I voted on Donald Trump, but they do respect people who have integrity and vote their conscience,” he said. As Romney prepares to depart from Washington, D.C., he “opens a door to a floodgate of candidates to replace him,” as political consultants LaVarr Webb and Frank Pignanelli wrote in an opinion piece for the Deseret News.
The race to replace Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney is largely open now that he has decided not to run, with only one declared GOP candidate in the field.