{"id":63299,"date":"2021-05-02T14:03:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T18:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=63299"},"modified":"2021-05-02T14:03:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T18:03:43","slug":"mitt-romney-raucously-booed-at-utah-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=63299","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney Raucously Booed At Utah Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Watch: Mitt Romney Raucously Booed At Utah Republican Party\u2019s Organizing Convention<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Senator Mitt Romney was raucously booed this week at\u00a0the Utah Republican Party\u2019s organizing convention, where he was trying to stumble his way through a speech about the state of Joe Biden&#8217;s first 100 days in office.<\/p>\n<p>Video of his speech hit the internet on Saturday and showed a crowd of more than 2,100\u00a0Republican delegates booing him at\u00a0the Maverik Center, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/politics\/2021\/05\/01\/mitt-romney-booed-raucous\/\">Salt Lake Tribune<\/a>\u00a0wrote. The jeers started almost instantly upon Romney&#8217;s chance to speak.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as Romney takes the podium he is granted by a loud chorus of boos. &#8220;Thank you, thank you,&#8221; Romney tells the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAren\u2019t you embarrassed?\u201d Romney later asked the crowd, who was antagonizing him. He continued, trying to defend himself to the crowd:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m a man who says what he means, and you know I was not a fan of our last president\u2019s character issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oO-aE4N76rg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand I have a few folks that don&#8217;t like me terribly much,&#8221; Romney finally said, as the boos wouldn&#8217;t let up for more than a minute and a half.<\/p>\n<p>Some in the crowd can even be heard accusing Romney of being a &#8220;traitor&#8221; or a &#8220;communist&#8221;. Romney said: \u201cYou can boo all you like. I\u2019ve been a Republican all of my life. My dad was the governor of Michigan and I was the Republican nominee for president in 2012.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outgoing party chair Derek Brown had to move Romney aside, take the podium, and\u00a0&#8220;scold&#8221; the delegates to get the booing to stop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please, thank you. Show respect,&#8221; he asked of the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Romney then stumbled on his next few sentences as he tried to make it through the rest of his speech. We can&#8217;t help but think: if Mitt is receiving such a\u00a0<em>warm\u00a0<\/em>welcome in Utah, perhaps its time for the Senator to consider hanging up his spurs.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/watch-mitt-romney-raucously-booed-utah-republican-partys-organizing-convention\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/watch-mitt-romney-raucously-booed-utah-republican-partys-organizing-convention<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch: Mitt Romney Raucously Booed At Utah Republican Party\u2019s Organizing Convention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}