As the 2024 Republican presidential primary begins to take shape, former candidate Mitt Romney has shared his thoughts on potential candidates, including Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney. After her recent loss to a Trump-backed challenger, Cheney has openly considered a bid for the White House — something the 2012 candidate said wasn’t such a good idea. Romney, who represents Utah in the U.S. Senate, told the South Valley Chamber of Commerce in Sandy, Utah, on Thursday that Cheney would not be the final Republican nominee. “I’m not going to encourage anyone to run for president. I’ve done it myself, and that’s something I’m not doing again. I don’t know if she really wants to do it. She wouldn’t run. I can’t imagine that happening.” said Romney along with Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. John Curtis, UT-03, the Deseret News reported. Romney had endorsed Cheney before her primary. Before Tuesday, the Utah Republican told Business Insider that he hoped she would win the primary, but “I recognize that in the age of Trump that may not be possible.” TRUMP MAR-A-LAGO RAID: FLORIDA JUDGE SAYS PART OF AFFIDAVIT RELATING TO RAID CAN BE UNSEALED Mitt Romney, R-UT, ahead of a roll call vote on the Inflation Relief Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on August 7, 2022. (Shuran Huang for The Washington Post via Getty Images ) Cheney, who is an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump, has yet to officially say whether or not she is running, only that she is “considering” a possible run. The Wyoming Republican said her ultimate goal is to prevent Trump from retaking the White House. “I think Donald Trump is still a very serious threat and danger to our democracy. And I think his defeat will require a broad and united front of Republicans, Democrats and Independents, and that’s what I intend to be a part of,” she told NBC’s “Today” show. TRUMP CRITICS LIKE LIZ CHENEY SHOULD EMBRACE THE GOP FOR ‘WHAT IT IS’ HELP THE COUNTRY HEAL As for Romney, he said Trump’s victory in the Republican nomination is all but inevitable unless he decides not to run. “My party has changed a lot in the last decade. It’s going to change again in the next 10 years. I can’t tell you how, but I think at some point we’re going to have more than one voice,” Romney told The Desert News. “But right now one voice, and that’s President Trump’s voice, is the loudest and the loudest, and bashing him is something that people will do at their peril.” CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP “I don’t think anyone who seems outside of Trump’s circle would have a realistic chance of running in 2024, barring something I can’t predict at this stage,” he added. “If he doesn’t run again, I think it’s going to be people who were either supporters of him or people who didn’t say much about him and then would be open to running.” Romney and Cheney both supported the impeachment effort against Trump, who they claim was responsible for the riot on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, and retracted his baseless claims that the 2020 election was rigged.
