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Posted by streetcarman1 on Fri Jan 30 12:51:48 2015 FROM THE NYDAILYNEWS.COM:Mitt Romney is not running for president 'After putting considerable thought into making another run for president, I’ve decided it is best to give other leaders in the Party the opportunity to become our next nominee,' the two time presidential candidate said. BY Leslie Larson , Celeste Katz / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS / Published: Friday, January 30, 2015, 7:42 AM / Updated: Friday, January 30, 2015, 12:35 PM Mitt Romney revealed on Friday that he is not running for President. "After putting considerable thought into making another run for president, I’ve decided it is best to give other leaders in the Party the opportunity to become our next nominee," he told supporters in a conference call. Romney said he believed he had the support to launch a successful campaign and is "convinced that we could win the nomination, but I fully realize it would have been difficult test and a hard fight." Romney says he is looking to "one of our next generation of Republican leaders, one who may not be as well known as I am today, one who has not yet taken their message across the country, one who is just getting started, may well emerge as being better able to defeat the Democrat nominee," an apparent dig at the rumored frontrunner in the race, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. "You can’t imagine how hard it is for Ann and me to step aside, especially knowing of your support and the support of so many people across the country. But we believe it is for the best of the Party and the nation," Romney added. Bush, the undeclared Republican who is "exploring" a presidential bid, heralded Romney as a "patriot" after the announcement. "I look forward to working with him to ensure all Americans have a chance to rise up," Bush said in a Facebook posting. Romney's revelation in a 11 a.m. call from New York comes just three weeks after he told a coterie of donors on January 10 in New York, "I want to be President." But as he flirted with the prospect, many of his former advisers and campaign staffers pledged their allegiance to presumed contender, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Romney's decision to not to run at age 67 suggests he may have finally laid to rest his family's long-cherished dream of capturing the presidency. His late father, George Romney, was a former governor of Michigan who ran for for the White House in 1968, losing the Republican nomination to Richard Nixon by a wide margin. Romney's bow-out will ease the pressure on strategists who worked on his prior campaigns and the donors who supported them as they hovered between joining forces with him again or getting behind another contender. But it also ratchets up the pressure on Bush. "It’s impossible to interpret Romney’s statement as anything other than a slap in Jeb’s face and pure encouragement to younger candidates like Marco Rubio and Scott Walker," Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics told the Daily News. "That’s why the immediate take that Romney’s non-candidacy helps Jeb is only partly true. It opens the door much wider to other candidates," Sabato said. "Jeb may have more donors available to him without Mitt, but Bush also has the biggest target on his back now that Romney’s controversies aren’t there to shield him." Romney is in New York on Friday and will attend a lunch with Chelsea Clinton and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, in support of the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the New York Times reported. Mezvinsky sits on the center's board. Friday night, Romney will dine with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at an undisclosed location, the New York Times reported. This comes after Romney sat down with Bush for a rendezvous in Utah last week, when the two discussed "the future," according to Bush. On Saturday, Romney will be in D.C. where he will be inducted as a member into the exclusive Alfalfa Club. |
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