The Mercury News Article RatingMItt Romney, like his father, fears the GOP has lost its way
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| "Many church members find Trump's infidelity, profanity and anti-immigrant rhetoric anathema to their faith." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Romney was one of the few elected Republicans willing to criticize Trump in public, and he felt the pressure from his party's base." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "But the group's leaders released a statement late Wednesday lauding Romney as an exceptional public servant." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "We welcome Sen. Romney to support our movement - and the will of most Americans - for more options in the 2024 election, they said." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "Mitt Romney's career in business and politics included co-founding a private equity firm, being the savior of the Salt Lake City Olympics, serving as governor of Massachusetts and wiing the GOP presidential nomination." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "Richard Nixon won the Republican nomination and was elected president that year." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Today, he is stepping back believing that Trump, who did become the 45th president in 2016 and is the party's front-ruer for the 2024 nomination, has led the GOP and the country away from some of their most cherished constitutional principles." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Skirmishes with the base were familiar for Romney, who was a teenager when his father first won elected office." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "In eras 50 years apart, George and Mitt Romney found themselves isolated in a GOP increasingly uninterested in their brand of genteel, country-club conservatism." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "It's hard for me to imagine what the party was like during his time, Romney said, remembering a time when Americans respected members of other political parties even when they disagreed." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Many church members find Trump's infidelity, profanity and anti-immigrant rhetoric anathema to their faith." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Mitt and his father, George Romney, at one time were top Republican contenders for the presidency, but fell short of the White House." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "The nation's many challenges call for a younger generation of leaders, the 76-year-old Romney said in his aouncement Wednesday." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Mitt Romney took on the more diplomatic persona of his mother, Lenore Romney, who ran for Senate from Michigan in 1970." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Romney considered independent bid in 2024 but concluded it would only serve to help TrumpBy Mead Gruver and Jonathan J. Cooper | Associated PressMitt Romney's aouncement this week that he will not seek another term in the U.S. Senate came with a distant echo of his father's departure from politics five decades ago." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "He said the United states would be better served if Democratic President Joe Biden, 80, and Trump, 77, stepped aside from the 2024 campaign.How Romney went from Republican standard-bearer to outlier coincided with Trump's takeover of the GOP and the rise of the populist, anti-elite movement he leads." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "He said the United states would be better served if Democratic President Joe Biden, 80, and Trump, 77, stepped aside from the 2024 campaign.How Romney went from Republican standard-bearer to outlier coincided with Trump's takeover of the GOP and the rise of the populist, anti-elite movement he leads." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "He said the United states would be better served if Democratic President Joe Biden, 80, and Trump, 77, stepped aside from the 2024 campaign.How Romney went from Republican standard-bearer to outlier coincided with Trump's takeover of the GOP and the rise of the populist, anti-elite movement he leads." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "No Labels has had no engagement at all with Romney regarding a presidential run as part of the group's potential third-party bid, according to a No Labels senior official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose private discussions." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "George Romney was a six-year governor of Michigan in the 1960s and clashed with Barry Goldwater, the Arizona senator who was the party's 1964 presidential nominee, over the Civil Rights Act." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Is the next senator going to be more in the mold of Mike Lee or more in the mold of Mitt Romney?" | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Is the next senator going to be more in the mold of Mike Lee or more in the mold of Mitt Romney?" | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "In following a path forged by his father, sometimes with eerie similarities, Mitt Romney became the latest in a line of prominent establishment Republicans who pushed back against Donald Trump's vision for the party, only to become isolated." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "In following a path forged by his father, sometimes with eerie similarities, Mitt Romney became the latest in a line of prominent establishment Republicans who pushed back against Donald Trump's vision for the party, only to become isolated." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Romney said he's not retiring from the fight but did not share any specific plans for after he leaves office in January 2025." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "And Trump ultimately was willing to tear the Republican Party apart if he didn't get his way." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "The younger Romney campaigned hard for his mother, who eked out a narrow victory in a contentious, ideologically driven primary." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Mitt Romney spoke wistfully of his father's political era when talking to Utah-based reporters this week." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Romney's departure from the political scene leaves an open question about the type of Republican who will succeed him in Utah, a deeply Republican state where the majority of residents are, like Romney, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known widely as the Mormon church." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Romney's departure from the political scene leaves an open question about the type of Republican who will succeed him in Utah, a deeply Republican state where the majority of residents are, like Romney, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known widely as the Mormon church." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The elder Romney was seen as a leading GOP contender for president in 1968, but his candidacy collapsed, fueled in part by a gaffe in explaining his change of position on the Vietnam War." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Romney said he decided months ago not to run again for the Senate." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "But Mitt Romney was not interested in trying to lead a Republican revolt against Trump, Kabaservice said." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Romney was the only Republican senator to vote twice to impeach Trump." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Romney was the only Republican senator to vote twice to impeach Trump." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "He appointed Romney to head the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where Romney worked toward racial integration and clashed with the president." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "He appointed Romney to head the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where Romney worked toward racial integration and clashed with the president." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Mitt Romney was willing on an individual basis to stand up against Donald Trump." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Mitt Romney was willing on an individual basis to stand up against Donald Trump." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Romney considered an independent bid for president in 2024 but concluded it would only serve to help Trump get back to the White House, according to an excerpt of an upcoming biography by McKay Coppins, a journalist for The Atlantic who interviewed Romney extensively." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Romney considered an independent bid for president in 2024 but concluded it would only serve to help Trump get back to the White House, according to an excerpt of an upcoming biography by McKay Coppins, a journalist for The Atlantic who interviewed Romney extensively." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Romney considered an independent bid for president in 2024 but concluded it would only serve to help Trump get back to the White House, according to an excerpt of an upcoming biography by McKay Coppins, a journalist for The Atlantic who interviewed Romney extensively." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Liz Cheney, who has declared it her mission to ensure Trump never returns to the Oval Office, was ousted in her U.S. House primary in Wyoming last year; Jeff Flake of Arizona opted not to run again for the U.S. Senate in 2018, condemning the flagrant disregard of truth and decency." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Liz Cheney, who has declared it her mission to ensure Trump never returns to the Oval Office, was ousted in her U.S. House primary in Wyoming last year; Jeff Flake of Arizona opted not to run again for the U.S. Senate in 2018, condemning the flagrant disregard of truth and decency." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Liz Cheney, who has declared it her mission to ensure Trump never returns to the Oval Office, was ousted in her U.S. House primary in Wyoming last year; Jeff Flake of Arizona opted not to run again for the U.S. Senate in 2018, condemning the flagrant disregard of truth and decency." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Romney was one of the few elected Republicans willing to criticize Trump in public, and he felt the pressure from his party's base." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "Romney was one of the few elected Republicans willing to criticize Trump in public, and he felt the pressure from his party's base." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "That same year, Arizona Sen. John McCain, an unflinching Trump critic, died." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "That same year, Arizona Sen. John McCain, an unflinching Trump critic, died." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "The state has elected both Romney, the most outspoken Republican Trump critic in the Senate, and Sen. Mike Lee, a brash conservative." | Negative | -70% Liberal |
| "The state has elected both Romney, the most outspoken Republican Trump critic in the Senate, and Sen. Mike Lee, a brash conservative." | Negative | -70% Liberal |
| "The state has elected both Romney, the most outspoken Republican Trump critic in the Senate, and Sen. Mike Lee, a brash conservative." | Negative | -70% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
47% : Many church members find Trump's infidelity, profanity and anti-immigrant rhetoric anathema to their faith.22% : Romney was one of the few elected Republicans willing to criticize Trump in public, and he felt the pressure from his party's base.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.