Former senator and failed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has surfaced to deliver his post-mortem on the midterm elections, an unmitigated disaster for the GOP.
Not only did the predicted “blue tsunami” come to fruition, but it was far bigger than anyone could have believed, not only sweeping Republicans out of control of both the House and Senate, but also claiming the job of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as well as flipping the governorships of Georgia and Ohio, two other key battleground states.
Romney, an outspoken critic of President Donald J. Trump, engaged in some post-election armchair quarterbacking in a Wednesday afternoon post to X in which he listed a number of reasons that he believes were a factor in the midterm losses, a once-in-a-century debacle for the GOP that handed power back to the disgraced Democrats just two years after they were routed and left for dead.
Bad policy, bad character make bad politics: erratic tariffs, impulsive Iran war, blanket pardons, apparent corruption, weaponized justice, ICE brutality, mountainous deficits, hiding Epstein, abandoning allies and coddling enemies. Hoping for a course correction, for the country and for my party.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) November 4, 2026
“Bad policy, bad character make bad politics: erratic tariffs, impulsive Iran war, blanket pardons, apparent corruption, weaponized justice, ICE brutality, mountainous deficits, hiding Epstein, abandoning allies and coddling enemies,” the former governor of ultra-liberal Massachusetts wrote.
“Hoping for a course correction, for the country and for my party,” Mitt added, a thinly veiled plea for the GOP to move on from Trump, a man whom he despises with a purple passion.
Pierre Delecto knows a thing or two about losing. In 2012, he “choked like a dog” in his White House run that could have saved America from a second term for Barack Obama.
Romney was the sole Republican senator to vote to convict Trump in both of the failed impeachments, the culmination of years of bad blood, with many suggesting that Romney’s disdain was rooted in jealousy that the then-political newcomer was able to succeed where he had failed by winning the 2016 election against heavily favored Hillary Clinton.
The 79-year-old has kept a low profile since he retired from the Senate when his term ended on January 3, 2025, skedaddling out of D.C. weeks before Trump’s triumphant return.
He has largely refrained from public criticism of Trump since he called it a career, but last month he issued a statement after the president’s much-maligned pre-midterm diesel fuel deal with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
“we will pay any price….to assure the success and survival of liberty.” Is this still true? Do we prize liberty or do we prize power and purse? No more clear test than the choice between Ukraine and Russia. Abandon Ukraine and we abandon liberty. Eventually even our own,” Romney wrote in an Oct. 17 post to X, cribbing from ill-fated former President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 inaugural address
It was vintage Romney, oozing in the cheesy sanctimony that is his enduring brand.
“Mitt Romney never knew how to win. He is a pompous ‘ass’ who has been fighting me from the beginning,” Trump said of his fellow Republican in a 2019 social media post.
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