“I’m doing better,” the Republican in Utah said on Capitol Hill, telling reporters he had taken a fall while visiting his grandchildren in Boston. He was not kept in the hospital overnight.
Romney would not say what he did when he fell, but he joked about the Conservative political action conference, where former president Donald Trump singled him out – despite his absence – to criticize him. ‘O woe. I went to CPAC. That was a problem, ‘the senator said.
Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, was despised by much of the Republican base in light of his votes to condemn Trump during both of his Senate prosecution hearings. The senator condemned the GOP’s efforts to undermine the will of the voters in the presidential election and committed the former president for urging supporters to disrupt the peaceful transition of power in an ‘unprecedented attack on our democracy’.
During his remarks Sunday at the CPAC, Trump called out Romney and other Republican lawmakers who voted to indict him in the House and found him guilty in the Senate of inciting the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, saying that “the Democrats do not have bigwigs like Mitt Romney” and others.
Former Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Utah, also hampered Romney, as well as the senator’s former secret Twitter account under the name Pierre Delecto. CPAC.
“My name is Jason Chaffetz, I’m from Utah and I’m not Mitt Romney,” Chaffetz said. ‘If you’re looking for Pierre Delecto, go down the hall, go left and then just go left until – well, just go left. This is where you’ll find him. ‘
Last year, CPAC organizer Matt Schlapp announced that Romney had not been invited to the event, and later said he would be “afraid of (Romney)’s physical safety, that people are so angry with him.”