Mitt Romney.Photo: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call
UtahSen. Mitt Romneytook a tumble over the weekend that knocked him unconscious, requiring him to get “a lot of stitches,” he told reporters on Capitol Hill on Monday.
Romney, who suffered bruised eyes and wounds on his lips, said the incident occurred while he was visiting his grandchildren in Boston, CNN’s chief congressional correspondent Manu Rajureported.
“I took a fall,” Romney, 73, said,according to The Hill. “I took a fall, knocked me unconscious, but I’m doing better.”
However, it appears that Romney is taking the fall in stride.
When asked about what he was doing before his spill, the former governor of Massachusetts joked, “Oh my goodness. I went to CPAC. That was a problem,” Raju reported.
The Conservative Political Action Conference was held in Orlando over the weekend, during whichDonald Trumpmade hisfirst public appearancesince PresidentJoe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
In arecent interviewwithTheNew York Times, Romney candidly spoke about Trump’s political future.
Romney, himself the 2012 Republican nominee for president, continued: “I expect he will continue playing a role. I don’t know if he’ll run in 2024 or not, but if he does I’m pretty sure he will win the nomination.”
“I mean a lot can happen between now and 2024, and I’m not great at predicting … so I don’t really know what will happen there,” he explained. “But I look at the polls and the polls show that among the names being floated as potential contenders in 2024, if you put President Trump in there, among Republicans, he wins in a landslide.”
When asked if he would campaign against Trump in the future, Romney said he would “not be voting for President Trump again — I haven’t voted for him in the past — and I would probably be getting behind somebody who I thought more represented the tiny wing of the Republican Party that I represent.”
source: people.com
