BREAKING: Anti-Trump Republican Senator Is Done - Calls It A Career

Hey ladies and gentlemen this is Carmine Sabia for Explain America and it is a happy, happy

day in Trump world. The former president must be smiling from ear to ear because one of his arch nemesis

is done. He's out of the Senate and Trump, oh I can't wait to see his celebration

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At a time when there's so much consternation, there's so much, you know, vitriol being

directed at Dianne Feinstein, Mitch McConnell, the older people in Congress, Joe Biden as

the president in his age, Nancy Pelosi in her age, one Republican senator, an arch nemesis

of Trump has stepped up and said, you know, I'm too old to run anymore

And I don't know if he's sending a message across the bow to McConnell and Feinstein

but he said he will not campaign for reelection and I respect that except I think there's

another reason involved here and I'm going to tell you it after you watch the announcement

video of that senator, Utah Republican Mitt Romney. You know, contrary to a lot of expectations, I enjoy my work in the Senate a good deal

The last few years have been particularly productive as I was able to help lead and

negotiate the bipartisan infrastructure law, a comprehensive China strategy process, religious liberty protections, a compromised gun safety law, the electoral account act reform and

emergency COVID relief funding. I was also able to help secure key Utah priorities, including funding for Hill Air Force Base

and its program to modernize our nuclear deterrent, as well as funding for wildfire prevention

water infrastructure, rural broadband, removal of uranium tailings from Moab, expansion and

restoration of our highway and transit infrastructure, and federal studies to save the Great Salt Lake

I've spent my last 25 years in public service of one kind or another

At the end of another term, I'd be in my mid-80s. Frankly, it's time for a new generation of leaders

They're the ones that need to make the decisions that will shape the world they will be living in

Now we face critical challenges, mounting national debt, climate change, and the ambitious

authoritarians of Russia and China. Neither President Biden nor former President Trump are leading their party to confront those issues

On deficits and debt, both men refuse to address entitlements, even though they know that this

represents two-thirds of federal spending. Donald Trump calls global warming a hoax, and President Biden offers feel-good solutions

that make no difference to the global climate. On China, President Biden under-invests in the military, and President Trump under-invests

in our alliances. Political motivations too often impede the solutions that these challenges demand

The next generation of leaders must take America to the next stage of global leadership

While I'm not running for re-election, I'm not retiring from the fight

I'll be your United States Senator until January of 2025. I will keep working on these and other issues, and I'll advance our state's numerous priorities

I look forward to working with you and with folks across our state and nation in that endeavor

It really is a profound honor to serve Utah and the country, and I thank you for giving

me the opportunity to do so. Now that's all well and good, and I believe him to a point, but I also believe that he

knows he's in deep, deep red Utah that Trump won in a landslide, and he's anti-Trump

And does he really want to go out in his last campaign ever being defeated by somebody who's

more pro-Trump? And you've got to know that whoever they pick, and I have some ideas, not going to share

them right now because I don't want to put them in a hot seat, but I have some ideas

It's going to be way more pro-Trump, the person who runs for Senate in Utah, and they're going to win because it's a Republican state

It'd be very unlikely that they would not win. Will they get the endorsement of Romney

I don't think it matters, but yeah, you're going to get a more pro-Trump Senator there

and I think that absolutely played a role here in Romney's decision, but I want to know

your opinion. Do you think it's just based on his age, or do you think that did play a role

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