MAGA Candidate Loses Bid to Replace Mitt Romney
Utah Senate candidate Trent Staggs carries a “Utah For Trump flag” during a rally on June 14, 2024, in Orem, Utah. Rick Bowmer/AP Photo Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Former President Donald Trump hates losers, but he backed one in the Utah Senate…
Not Even Leonard Leo Could Turn Brent Orrin Hatch Into Utah’s Next Senator
Brent Orrin Hatch in Salt Lake City in 2008.Douglas C. Pizac/AP Photo Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It turns out that not even a famous last name, support from the conservative Federalist Society and its powerful leader, and a boatload of dark money can…
How the 47-Percent Video Drove Mitt Romney to Depression and Nearly Out of the 2012 Race
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.During the 2012 presidential campaign, when I obtained and posted a secretly recorded video of GOP nominee Mitt Romney deriding 47 percent of Americans as shiftless freeloaders who don’t “take personal responsibility and care for their…
The Race for Romney’s Senate Replacement Looks Like a MAGA-Fest
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah)Rick Bowmer/AP Photo Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When Sen. Mitt Romney replaced Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) in 2018, he was continuing a long tradition of relatively moderate Republican senators from Utah who were able to cross the aisle and get…
Biden and Trump Both Trashed Private Equity’s Favorite Tax Dodge. Surprise! It’s Still Here.
Over the past four decades, private equity has become a powerful, and malignant, force in our daily lives. In our May/June 2022 issue, Mother Jones investigates the vulture capitalists chewing up and spitting out American businesses, the politicians enabling them, and the everyday people fighting back. Find the full package here. If you were to sit down with a…
The White House Says Trump Was Offended by Romney’s 47-Percent Remark. That’s a Lie.
Donald Trump endorsing Mitt Romney in 2012.Julie Jacobson/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Mitt Romney appears to have gotten under Donald Trump’s skin—and, as so often happens, the Trump White House is reacting by lying, this time about Romney’s most infamous quote. On Sunday, Romney, the GOP’s…
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