{"id":37719,"date":"2023-09-13T19:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=37719"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:43:19","slug":"romney-will-not-seek-second-term-in-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/09\/13\/romney-will-not-seek-second-term-in-us-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney will not seek second term in US Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Utah\u2019s US Senator Mitt Romney, who as the Republican nominee lost the 2012 presidential election to incumbent Barack Obama, has announced that he won\u2019t seek a second term. He told the Washington Post it was time for a new generation to \u201cstep up\u201d and \u201cshape the world they\u2019re going to live in\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Romney twice voted to impeach Donald Trump and the 76-year-old told the Post that he believed a second term, which would take him into his 80s, would be \u201cless productive\u201d than his work now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More to follow. Here\u2019s the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah\u2019s US Senator Mitt Romney, who as the Republican nominee lost the 2012 presidential election to incumbent Barack Obama, has announced that he won\u2019t seek a second term. He told the Washington Post it was time for a new generation to \u201cstep up\u201d and \u201cshape the world they\u2019re going to live in\u201d. Romney twice voted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":37720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[160,911,10634,10587,6025,11377,1776,6944,8501,6082,9262,6348,6081,2354,10415,36,594],"class_list":["post-37719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-election","tag-lost","tag-mitt-romney","tag-obama","tag-presidential","tag-presidential-election","tag-republican","tag-senate","tag-senator","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-utah","tag-washington","tag-work","tag-world","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37721,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37719\/revisions\/37721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}