Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) explored creating a new political party with fellow centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), according to an excerpt released Wednesday in Romney’s forthcoming biography.

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Romney explored creating new political party with Manchin: book

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) explored creating a new political party with fellow centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), according to an excerpt released Wednesday in Romney’s forthcoming biography. “They’d talked about the prospect before, but it was always hypothetical. Now Romney wanted to make it real,” the book excerpt reads. “His goal for the yet-unnamed party…

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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) acknowledged on Wednesday that he privately pitched Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on the idea of starting a new political party ahead of the 2024 election.

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Romney acknowledges pitching Manchin on starting third party ahead of 2024

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Romney’s Exit Threatens Collapse of Senate’s Middle

Mitt Romney’s retirement shines a glaring spotlight on the potentially bleak future of the Senate's ideological center in both parties. If Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema follow him out the door, it will get worse. Manchin, a centrist Democrat, and the Independent Sinema are both still mulling whether to run again. Like Romney, they could be replaced by senators on either end of the ideological spectrum — almost surely a Republican in Manchin's W…

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'You're screwed': Romney's exit threatens a collapse of Senate's middle

The Utah senator, who announced his retirement this week, has spent two years working with a biographer to unravel exactly how he became “the turd in the punch bowl” of the GOP.

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