Second Utah County Censures Mitt Romney For Trump Impeachment Vote
Republican Senator Mitt Romney (Utah) was censured by the Weber County GOP over the weekend during its convention for voting to impeach former President Donald Trump earlier this year.
According to County Party Secretary Jill Koford, the resolution to censure Romney was passed by the Weber County GOP by a vote of 116-97.
Utah County Votes To Censure Romney Over Impeachment Vote https://t.co/IVsnQ2ZkcM pic.twitter.com/MgoxQImkuv
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 10, 2021
“The Weber County Republican Convention censures Mitt Romney for his votes to convict President Trump in two U.S. Senate impeachment trials,” the resolution stated.
It noted that the impeachment had “denied the President due process, allowed falsified evidence, and did not provide adequate time for an investigation.”
The resolution also noted that the Democrat-backed impeachment “did not follow the U.S. Constitution which states a President may only be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Weber County — Utah’s fourth-most populous county — in the resolution it passed also thanked Republican Senator Mike Lee (Utah) for protecting the “due process and the US Constitution by voting against the unconstitutional charges.”
It also lauded GOP House Representatives Chris Stewart, John Curtis, Blake Moore and Burgess Owens “for voting against the Democrats’ politically motivated articles of impeachment.”
The resolution says that voting to convict a former president “without sufficient evidence” is “unjust and unethical.”
🚨#breaking🚨A week after a failed resolution at the Utah GOP convention to censure Senator Mitt Romney (UT-R), a similar resolution was passed by the Weber County GOP on Saturday with a vote of 116-97. This is Romney's second censure in less than a month.https://t.co/ewer8FSzwk
— Lynnwood Times (@LynnwoodTimes) May 10, 2021
Meanwhile, earlier this month, Senator Romney was booed on stage by the many attendees of the Utah GOP convention — with several people from the audience tagging Romney a “communist” and a “traitor” for siding with Democrats to impeach former President Trump, twice.
.@SenatorRomney is getting boo’d loudly at the @UtahGOP convention. @fox13 #utpol #utgop pic.twitter.com/4vMwVnh6YI
— Ben Winslow (@BenWinslow) May 1, 2021
During the convention, however, Utah Republicans fell short of voting to censure Senator Romney — in a 798-711 vote according to the DailyMail.
It added that Washington County Republicans also voted to censure Romney in April.
Romney, a long time critic of former President Trump, voted to impeach the former Republican chief executive along with six other GOP senators: Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska,) Richard Burr (North Carolina), Bill Cassidy (Louisiana), Ben Sasse (Nebraska), and Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania).
Although Romney does not face voter backlash in a looming re-election campaign in next year’s midterm elections, his criticism of former President Trump, who remains a prominent figure in the GOP, could hurt his chances in 2024.
