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4	->''"I love our country. I believe that our Constitution was inspired by Providence. I am convinced that freedom itself is dependent on the strength and vitality of our national character."''
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6	Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an [[UsefulNotes/UnitedStates American]] politician, businessman, and lawyer who currently serves as a Republican Senator for UsefulNotes/{{Utah}}. He previously served as Governor of UsefulNotes/{{Massachusetts}} from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2012 election. He was born into a powerful political family: his father was George W. Romney, chairman and president of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, Governor of UsefulNotes/{{Michigan}} from 1963 to 1969, a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 1968 U.S. presidential election, and United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under UsefulNotes/RichardNixon from 1969 to 1973. Additionally, Mitt's niece, Ronna Romney [=McDaniel=], has been the Chair of the Republican National Committee since 2017.
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8	After some time in finance, Romney ran as the Republican candidate in the 1994 U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts, losing to longtime incumbent UsefulNotes/TedKennedy. After returning to the private sector, a successful stint as president and CEO of the then-struggling Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Winter Olympics]] led to a re-launch of his political career, being elected Governor of Massachusetts that year. During his governorship, he famously developed and later signed a health care reform law that provided near-universal health insurance access.[[note]]Ironically, that system became a major model for future rival Barack Obama's signature legislation, which meant Romney had a hard time criticizing it, even admitting that he saw a little of "Romneycare" in it.[[/note]] He did not seek re-election in 2006, instead focusing on his campaign for the Republican nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, wherein UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush was ineligible to seek a third term. Though he won several primaries and caucuses, Romney ultimately lost the nomination to Senator UsefulNotes/JohnMcCain. Romney again ran for, and this time won, the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, becoming the first UsefulNotes/{{Mormon\|ism}} to be a presidential nominee of a major party, but lost to incumbent Democratic President UsefulNotes/BarackObama.
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10	After re-establishing residency in Utah, Romney announced his campaign for the state's U.S. Senate seat contested in the 2018 election (which became open when then-senator Orrin Hatch announced he would retire after finishing his seventh term) and won it; in doing so, he became only the third person ever to be elected governor of one state and U.S. senator for another state.[[note]]The other two were William Bibb, who was a senator from UsefulNotes/{{Georgia\|USA}} and then became the first governor of Alabama, and Sam Houston, who was governor of UsefulNotes/{{Tennessee}} before becoming a senator from UsefulNotes/{{Texas}}.[[/note]] However, despite being the face of the party just a few years prior, Romney became known in his time in the Senate as one of the few Republicans who would vocally criticize then-president UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump over anything. In Trump's first impeachment trial, he voted to convict the president of abuse of power (over Trump's attempts to get UsefulNotes/{{Ukrain\|e}}ian President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce an investigation into his political rival UsefulNotes/JoeBiden); while the votes to convict were insufficient and Trump was acquitted, this nonetheless made Romney the first senator in U.S. history to vote to convict a president of his own party. Romney also voted to convict Trump during his second impeachment trial, held after the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, this time joined by a few other Republicans, although once again votes to convict were insufficient and Trump was acquitted. He has ruled out seeking re-election to his Senate seat in 2024.
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12	He is married to Ann Romney and they have five children.
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14	!!Books
15	* ''Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games'', with Timothy Robinson
16	* ''No Apology: The Case for American Greatness''
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18	!!Media
19	[[AC:Live-Action Television]]
20	* In ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'', he appears AsHimself in one of its [[https://time.com/3981673/stephen-colbert-late-show-mitt-romney-promo/ initial promos]].

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