Mitt Romney

Donald Trump might be seeing one of his enemies soon in the senate after Orin Hatch announced his retirement. Mitt Romney has recently changed his bio on Twitter after the Hatch announced his retirement at the end of the year.

After the announcement, Mitt Romney changed his location from Massachusetts to Holladay, Utah. While the new change might look as of no big deal on a normal day on Twitter, there has been rumour of Mitt Romney running for the open Utah seat in the case of Hatch retirement.

            

                           Old twitter profile VS New twitter profile of Mitt Romney

Donald Trump and Mitt Romney are not close pals, even though the two Republicans met after Trump's victory for dinner, while looking to make Romney secretary of state, which later backfired.

In the run up to the 2016 election, Romney said;

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat.

This is one of the reasons that Trump was pushing for Hatch to run again for the eighth time for his seat.

According to the polls, Romney has great chances of winning in the election, but this is not a good news for Trump, but Republicans are also looking to win more seats in 2018 after losing one of their major seats to Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama. 

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After different speculation on who will be the secretary of state for President-elect Donald Trump administration, a source close to the transition team have said that Donald Trump is considering ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of State nominee.

Donald Trump also makes the announcement via his Twitter page he would be announcing his pick for secretary of state on Tuesday.

          

The president elect described the ExxonMobil CEO as a big player in the world stage, while Democrats and Republicans have raised questions about his candidacy, because of his different ties to Russia.

While speaking with Fox News Sunday, Donald Trump praised Tillerson, and said, He is "much more than a business executive.""I mean, he's a world-class player, He's in charge of, I guess the largest company in the world. He's in charge of an oil company that's pretty much double the size of his next serious competitor."

Mitt Romney was one of the favourably considered for the position, and had met Trump twice, but he wrote on his Facebook account that he was out of consideration, also President-elect Donald Trump has reported to have called him personally and let him know that he would no longer be considered for the position.

Mitt wrote;

        

Also, another considered candidate, Rudy Giuliani, is also out of consideration after he told Trump personally not to no longer consider him for the position.

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President-elect Donald Trump is widening search for selecting his secretary of state, as more suitable candidates are reported to be meeting him this week for the same position.

The search for secretary of state have been reported to be between the former New York mayor and Donald Trump close ally during his campaign, Rudy Giuliani, and also former presidential candidate, Mitt Romney.

                  

Trump adviser, Kellyanne Conway told reporters on Sunday;

There is not a finite list of finalists only because he will interview with additional candidates early this week. It is true that he's broadened the search, and the secretary of State is an incredibly important position for any president.

Aides have claimed that the shortlist for the position had been narrowed to four candidates, but Donald Trump is reported to be moving is choices away from both Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani.

Former CIA Director David Petraeus, who pleaded guilty to leaking classified information in 2015, would have to check with his parole officer before he could be named secretary of state.

Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO and retired Navy Admiral James G. Stavridis have also got an invitation to meet Trump.  John Bolton, former ambassador to the UN, and Jon Huntsman, former ambassador to China, are also considered for the position.

Mitt Romney has been criticized by both Trump's supporters and his inner circle. A recent "Thank You" tour by Trump at Ohio see his supporting chanting, "No Romney." The former presidential candidate was a harsh critic of Donald J. Trump, saying he would be the worst president of the United States during his campaign.

Rudy Giuliani plea for the position in public media and his different International business ties does not want Trump to consider him for the job. According to New York times, Giuliani gave paid speeches to an Iranian opposition group that was also on the state department list of  terrorist organization until 2012.

He also gave paid speeches as much as $200,000, which earns him $11.4 million in a year. Also, he is reported to have a business contract with the Qatar government.

Donald Trump during his campaign had criticized his rival, Hillary Clinton for giving paid speeches to Goldman Sachs and for receiving donations via the Clinton foundation from the government of Qatar.

 

 

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