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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
John Bowden

From failed presidential candidate to Trump’s Republican nemesis: The rise, fall and rise again of Mitt Romney

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Mitt Romney is leaving politics. Again.

Utah’s junior senator announced on Wednesday that he would not seek a second term. Mr Romney, 76, noted to reporters that he would be well into his 80s by the end of his next six years in office were he to run again, an otherwise innocent remark that may as well have been a shiv to the sides of the two frontrunners for the 2024 Democratic and Republican nominations.

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