Romney does not rule out a vote for Biden, says he sees no evidence for impeachment

Turncoat “Republican” Sen. Mitt Romney suggested this Sunday that he may possibly vote for President Joe Biden in the 2024 race instead of former President Donald Trump.

During an interview with NBC News, he was asked point-blank whether, given his distaste for Trump, he would vote for Biden in the 2024 race. He didn’t answer with a “yes,” but he didn’t rule it out either.

I’m not going to describe who I’ll rule out other than President Trump,” he said.

Listen to the whole discussion below:

He went on to talk incredible amounts of trash about Trump, at one point even comparing him to a gumball machine.

“You know, when I was a kid, there was something called a gumball machine,” Romney said. “You could put a penny in, and a gumball would come out. It was automatic. There was no filter. Put in the penny, out came the gumball. Donald Trump is kind of a human gumball machine, which is a thought or a notion comes in, and it comes out of his mouth. There’s not a lot of filter that goes on. There’s not a lot of, ‘What’s the implication?’ No, no. He just says whatever.”

“I don’t attach an enormous amount of impact to the particular words that come out and trying to evaluate each one of them. I do think you can look at his record as president, and particularly in the last months of his presidency, and say, ‘This is a dangerous approach. It’s an authoritarian approach.’ That gives me far more concern than – than him playing to the crowd as he did,”  he added.

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This prompted the interviewer, Kristen Welker, to ask him why he doesn’t take Trump at his word.

“Oh, I think we agree that we have looked at his behavior, and his behavior suggests that this is a person who will impose his will, if he can, on the judicial system, on the legislative branch, and on the entire nation,” he replied. “I mean, when he called people to come to Washington, DC on January 6th, that was not a random date. That was a date when peaceful transfer of power was to occur. He called that on purpose.”

“There’s no question he has authoritarian rulings, and interests, and notions which he will try and impose. That’s dangerous for the country. It was dangerous then. Life was lost. We were embarrassed around the world. I mean, this was a tragedy. And a number of the things he did in the last months of his presidency suggest what he’d do if he were elected again,” he added.

Welker then suggested that Trump, if he wins, might stay in the presidency in perpetuity and therefore become a dictator.

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To Romney’s credit, he dismissed this ridiculous idea.

“I don’t think Donald Trump would want to stay in longer than four years,” he said. “And the reason I say that is because I – I think he is running for retribution, and I think he will have finished his retribution after four years, if he’s elected. I don’t think he particularly likes being around the White House.”

“I think he’d rather be back at Mar-a-Lago or other properties of his. But he wants to show that he’s not a loser, he won. And he wants to go after the people who were tough on him. So, I think he’ll be finished after four years and go back to other occupations,” Romney continued.

Later during the interview, Romney was asked about the GOP’s impeachment efforts against Biden. Not surprisingly, the “turncoat” senator sided against his peers, telling Welker that he hasn’t seen any evidence to substantiate an impeachment inquiry.

“Have you seen any evidence that President Biden has committed high crimes and misdemeanors?” she asked him.

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“No. I – I – I don’t see any evidence of that at all. I think before you begin an impeachment inquiry, you ought to have some evidence, some inclination that there’s been wrongdoing. And so far, there’s nothing of that nature that’s been provided,”  he replied.

Critics did not take kindly to this:

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Vivek Saxena

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