The Salt Lake Tribune Article RatingMitt Romney shunned Mike Lee in 2022 because Lee helped Trump try overturning 2020 election, new book reveals
Oct 20, 2023 View Original Article
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
|---|---|---|
| "At an event staged by the Iron County Republican Party, the opening prayer was offered by anti-government activist Ammon Bundy." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Romney says Trump offered him the Russia ambassadorship after being passed over for secretary of state, but he declined." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Please get on board, Lee asked of Romney at the time." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "Please get on board, Lee asked of Romney at the time." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "Sen. Mike Lee during a Tuesday evening appearance with Fox News host Tucker Carlson." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
| "Romney muses in the biography that Lee possibly had convinced himself that Trump would reward those efforts with an appointment to the Supreme Court." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "Romney muses in the biography that Lee possibly had convinced himself that Trump would reward those efforts with an appointment to the Supreme Court." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "Romney muses in the biography that Lee possibly had convinced himself that Trump would reward those efforts with an appointment to the Supreme Court." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "Author McKay Coppins worked closely with Romney on the memoir, and The Salt Lake Tribune was given access to an advance copy." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "According to Coppins' book, Romney was puzzled by Lee's desperate pleas for his support during the 2022 campaign." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "According to Coppins' book, Romney was puzzled by Lee's desperate pleas for his support during the 2022 campaign." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2017 file photo, Jon Huntsman Jr., the U.S. ambassador to Russia, looks on during a ceremonial swearing-in event with Utah Gov. Gary Herbert Sin Salt Lake City." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Schultz said he was surprised to learn the story about the post-impeachment hearing was even included in the book." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "That revelation is contained in the forthcoming biography, Romney, A Reckoning, due to be released next week." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Romney thought McMullin's challenge to Lee was a long shot, predicting the incumbent Republican would triumph by 10 percentage points." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Romney thought McMullin's challenge to Lee was a long shot, predicting the incumbent Republican would triumph by 10 percentage points." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Carson Jorgensen, chairman of the Utah GOP at the time, says he reached out to Romney several times to encourage him to support Lee but never spoke with Romney." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Carson Jorgensen, chairman of the Utah GOP at the time, says he reached out to Romney several times to encourage him to support Lee but never spoke with Romney." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Carson Jorgensen, chairman of the Utah GOP at the time, says he reached out to Romney several times to encourage him to support Lee but never spoke with Romney." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "In early 2017, Romney was invited to a meeting with then-Sen. Orrin Hatch, who was thinking about retiring and wanted Romney to run as his successor." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "In early 2017, Romney was invited to a meeting with then-Sen. Orrin Hatch, who was thinking about retiring and wanted Romney to run as his successor." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "In early 2017, Romney was invited to a meeting with then-Sen. Orrin Hatch, who was thinking about retiring and wanted Romney to run as his successor." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Author McKay Coppins will discuss his book, Romney: A Reckoning, during an event at The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City on Nov. 2." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Mitt Romney speaks at the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Park City on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Last March, Romney said publicly he would withhold an endorsement in the Lee-McMullin contest because he considered the two men friends." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Schultz said." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "(Lee wound up wiing by about that much.)" | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Romney revealed to Coppins that he had met McMullin only a handful of times, but he was happy to use that as an excuse to stay on the sidelines." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Romney's 2018 U.S. Senate campaign" | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Hatch was not the first to make that suggestion, though." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Romney kept that detail to himself." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "If Jon Jr. wants to be senator, he can have it, Romney reportedly said, according to the biography." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "The night after his vote, according to the biography, Romney flew to Salt Lake City and met with GOP legislative leaders at the Utah Capitol so they could yell at him in person." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Romney vs. HuntsmanAs Romney warmed to the idea of ruing for Senate again, he learned that former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. was also interested in ruing for Hatch's seat." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Romney vs. HuntsmanAs Romney warmed to the idea of ruing for Senate again, he learned that former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. was also interested in ruing for Hatch's seat." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Romney vs. HuntsmanAs Romney warmed to the idea of ruing for Senate again, he learned that former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. was also interested in ruing for Hatch's seat." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Romney felt those efforts contradicted Lee's self-professed fealty to the Constitution." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Romney felt those efforts contradicted Lee's self-professed fealty to the Constitution." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Romney's relationship with the Huntsmans had soured when he was tapped to salvage Utah's 2002 Winter Olympics." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "A new book by McKay Coppins, titled Romney: A Reckoning, shared details about Romney thoughts on Utah politics." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "A new book by McKay Coppins, titled Romney: A Reckoning, shared details about Romney thoughts on Utah politics." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "He's also taller than Lee." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Mitt Romney in one of the meetings trying to put the 2002 Olympics back together again." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "At one point, Romney recalled, his aides saw Bundy approaching them down a hallway and shuffled him into the nearest door to escape." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "I didn't know who you were, Romney reportedly replied." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The two men did not have a close relationship, and Romney was unwilling to support his colleague for several reasons." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Lee was absent from those negotiations, Romney says, but did have time to deliver an hourlong speech opposing the measure as an orgiastic convulsion of federal spending." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Lee was absent from those negotiations, Romney says, but did have time to deliver an hourlong speech opposing the measure as an orgiastic convulsion of federal spending." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Romney suggested Lee's attitude toward him may have been motivated by jealousy because Romney has a higher profile in Congress, even though Lee is Utah's senior senator." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Romney suggested Lee's attitude toward him may have been motivated by jealousy because Romney has a higher profile in Congress, even though Lee is Utah's senior senator." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Romney suggested Lee's attitude toward him may have been motivated by jealousy because Romney has a higher profile in Congress, even though Lee is Utah's senior senator." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Romney suggested Lee's attitude toward him may have been motivated by jealousy because Romney has a higher profile in Congress, even though Lee is Utah's senior senator." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "At the time, and just a month ahead of Election Day, the state's senior U.S. senator was locked in a tighter-than-anticipated race against independent challenger Evan McMullin and used a guest spot on Tucker Carlson's show to implore Romney to come to his aid." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "In another example from the book, Romney reopened negotiations on the bipartisan infrastructure bill when he realized funding for a water project in Utah was inadvertently omitted." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Romney says he met with Jon Huntsman Sr., hoping to put aside any remaining hard feelings." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "On the campaign trail, Romney became alarmed by how politically extreme some pockets of the Utah Republican faithful had become." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Romney says he wanted to avoid being associated with the more extreme elements of the GOP and took great pains to steer clear of being photographed with Bundy during the event." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Romney says Trump offered him the Russia ambassadorship after being passed over for secretary of state, but he declined." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Romney says Trump offered him the Russia ambassadorship after being passed over for secretary of state, but he declined." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "During the interview, Lee begged Sen. Mitt Romney to support his campaign against independent Evan McMullin." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "During the interview, Lee begged Sen. Mitt Romney to support his campaign against independent Evan McMullin." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Romney often makes national news when he comments on an issue, and asserts Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCoell, R-Ky., seeks him out first on anything related to Utah." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Romney often makes national news when he comments on an issue, and asserts Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCoell, R-Ky., seeks him out first on anything related to Utah." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Maybe, Romney reportedly told a colleague, he (Lee) just can't stand being in my shadow." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Maybe, Romney reportedly told a colleague, he (Lee) just can't stand being in my shadow." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "A representative for Romney could not be reached for comment." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "As Election Day crept closer, polls showed Lee's comfortable lead over McMullin was shrinking, and the pressure on Romney to endorse his GOP colleague grew." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "As Election Day crept closer, polls showed Lee's comfortable lead over McMullin was shrinking, and the pressure on Romney to endorse his GOP colleague grew." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Instead of assisting Romney with the major legislation he helped craft, Lee was routinely opposed to the measures." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "Instead of assisting Romney with the major legislation he helped craft, Lee was routinely opposed to the measures." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "Lee's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Romney's remarks." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Lee's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Romney's remarks." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "He's a liar, Schultz added." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "People gather in support of Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, at the Wallace F. Beett Federal Building in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, after he voted to convict President Donald Trump of abuse of power." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "People gather in support of Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, at the Wallace F. Beett Federal Building in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, after he voted to convict President Donald Trump of abuse of power." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Sen. Mitt Romney was deeply aoyed when his fellow Utah senator, Mike Lee, went on television to beg for Romney's endorsement in his 2022 reelection campaign." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Sen. Mitt Romney was deeply aoyed when his fellow Utah senator, Mike Lee, went on television to beg for Romney's endorsement in his 2022 reelection campaign." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Sen. Mitt Romney was deeply aoyed when his fellow Utah senator, Mike Lee, went on television to beg for Romney's endorsement in his 2022 reelection campaign." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Romney was told Huntsman Jr. was no longer interested in the Senate, having recently been confirmed as Trump's ambassador to Russia." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Romney was told Huntsman Jr. was no longer interested in the Senate, having recently been confirmed as Trump's ambassador to Russia." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "In Schultz's eyes, Romney's vote to convict Trump broke that promise." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "In Schultz's eyes, Romney's vote to convict Trump broke that promise." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "In Schultz's eyes, Romney's vote to convict Trump broke that promise." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "In the biography, Romney points to Lee's opposition to legislation to make the U.S. more competitive with China and a gun control bill after the Uvalde school shooting in Texas." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "In the biography, Romney points to Lee's opposition to legislation to make the U.S. more competitive with China and a gun control bill after the Uvalde school shooting in Texas." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "Schultz took issue with the assertion he was not invited to the Weber County event, insisting he was deliberately told by Romney's campaign not to attend." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "Schultz took issue with the assertion he was not invited to the Weber County event, insisting he was deliberately told by Romney's campaign not to attend." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "Romney says party leaders started lobbying him behind the scenes to back Lee, but he refused." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Romney says party leaders started lobbying him behind the scenes to back Lee, but he refused." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Lee spent months, for example, trying to help Donald Trump remain in the White House even though he had lost the 2020 election." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Lee spent months, for example, trying to help Donald Trump remain in the White House even though he had lost the 2020 election." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "According to the book, Schultz also complained that Romney did not invite him to participate in a campaign event held in Weber County." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "According to the book, Schultz also complained that Romney did not invite him to participate in a campaign event held in Weber County." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Schultz says he remembers the meeting well, but his anger at Romney wasn't solely motivated by his impeachment vote." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Schultz says he remembers the meeting well, but his anger at Romney wasn't solely motivated by his impeachment vote." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "He said he was not going to be a Jeff Flake, Schultz told The Tribune, referring to the former U.S. senator from Arizona who was highly critical of Trump." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
| "He said he was not going to be a Jeff Flake, Schultz told The Tribune, referring to the former U.S. senator from Arizona who was highly critical of Trump." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
| "The Utah lawmaker said that Romney's impeachment vote came at a time when Republican leaders were trying to work with the Trump administration on public lands issues, and his vote damaged that effort." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "The Utah lawmaker said that Romney's impeachment vote came at a time when Republican leaders were trying to work with the Trump administration on public lands issues, and his vote damaged that effort." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "In a closed-door meeting, Romney was blistered by Rep. Mike Schultz, R-Hooper, for his lifelong disloyalty to conservative issues, which included flip-flopping on abortion and reversing course on support for Trump." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "In a closed-door meeting, Romney was blistered by Rep. Mike Schultz, R-Hooper, for his lifelong disloyalty to conservative issues, which included flip-flopping on abortion and reversing course on support for Trump." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "In a closed-door meeting, Romney was blistered by Rep. Mike Schultz, R-Hooper, for his lifelong disloyalty to conservative issues, which included flip-flopping on abortion and reversing course on support for Trump." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "In the biography, Romney says former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt suggested the same thing a year earlier, but Romney said he still harbored bad memories about his unsuccessful 1994 run in Massachusetts for U.S. Senate." | Negative | -64% Liberal |
| "In the biography, Romney says former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt suggested the same thing a year earlier, but Romney said he still harbored bad memories about his unsuccessful 1994 run in Massachusetts for U.S. Senate." | Negative | -64% Liberal |
| "Votes to remove TrumpIn January 2020, Romney broke with Republicans, voting to convict President Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "Votes to remove TrumpIn January 2020, Romney broke with Republicans, voting to convict President Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "Schultz says shortly after Romney was elected to the Senate, he met with legislative leaders and promised he would not work against Trump's administration." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
| "Schultz says shortly after Romney was elected to the Senate, he met with legislative leaders and promised he would not work against Trump's administration." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
| "Schultz says shortly after Romney was elected to the Senate, he met with legislative leaders and promised he would not work against Trump's administration." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
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46% : At an event staged by the Iron County Republican Party, the opening prayer was offered by anti-government activist Ammon Bundy.38% : Romney says Trump offered him the Russia ambassadorship after being passed over for secretary of state, but he declined.
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