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    Mitt Romney Announces Return To Politics With Utah Senate Run

    The 2012 GOP presidential nominee was encouraged to run by retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch. If Romney is elected, a prominent GOP critic of President Trump would arrive in the Senate as others retire.
    by Brakkton Booker Feb 16, 2018 4 minutes
    Mitt Romney's Twitter feed had been hinting at a possible run, changing his location from Massachusetts to Utah and teasing an announcement two weeks ago.

    Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee and former governor of Massachusetts, officially announced Friday morning that he is running for the Senate seat being vacated by seven-term GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah.

    Romney tweeted out a video announcement, after delaying a planned launch on Thursday in the wake of the deadly mass school shooting in Parkland, Fla.

    The move was widely anticipated after Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history, said in early January that he was after 42 years of service. Hatch told that he was urging Romney to run. "I've expressed it to him. I can see

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