{"id":15670,"date":"2024-02-17T00:46:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T00:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/17\/mitt-romney-says-he-is-not-going-to-run-for-president-in-2024-after-being-floated-as-manchin-vp-pick\/"},"modified":"2024-02-17T00:46:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T00:46:22","slug":"mitt-romney-says-he-is-not-going-to-run-for-president-in-2024-after-being-floated-as-manchin-vp-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/17\/mitt-romney-says-he-is-not-going-to-run-for-president-in-2024-after-being-floated-as-manchin-vp-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney says he is \u2018not going to run for president\u2019 in 2024 after being floated as Manchin VP pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said that he does not have any plans to run for president or vice president in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Romney\u2019s comment came after Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said he would pick either Romney or former Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman as a running mate if he jumped into the 2024 presidential race.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hypothetically, if I was picking my running mate, really who I would ask right now is Mitt Romney,\u2019 Manchin, who has left the door open to a third-party presidential run, told voters Thursday at the City Club of Cleveland breakfast forum. Manchin, however, added that he was not \u2018not running for anything.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Romney, a former Massachusetts governor who ran for the White House in 2008 and 2012, squashed the rumors and noted he would \u2018certainly\u2019 not be a vice president.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Well, that\u2019s really presumptuous. I would be the president. He would be my running mate,\u2019 Romney joked in a statement to Deseret News when asked about Manchin\u2019s comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018No, I\u2019m not going to run for president,\u2019 he added. \u2018Certainly I\u2019m not running for vice president. But (Manchin is) kind to say that. We\u2019re good friends.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>After flirting with a third-party White House run for months, Manchin on Friday said he wouldn\u2019t bid for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I will not be seeking a third-party run, i will not be involved in a presidential run,\u2019 Manchin announced during a speech in West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Romney was the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, sparking rumors he might be considering a third run at the White House after deciding not to seek re-election in the Senate in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Romney also added that he will \u2018not\u2019 be voting for former President Trump if he is the 2024 GOP nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019 Jamie Joseph contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said that he does not have any plans to run for president or vice president in 2024. Romney\u2019s comment came after Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said he would pick either Romney or former Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman as a running mate if he jumped into the 2024 presidential race. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}