Mitt Romney

===2018 United States Senate campaign in Utah===
{{Main|2018 United States Senate election in Utah}}
[[File:Swearing in of Mitt Romney.jpg|thumb|left|Romney being sworn in as Senator from Utah by Vice President [[Mike Pence]]]]

September and October 2017 press reports said that should U.S. Senator [[Orrin Hatch]] retire, Romney would run for that seat in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2017/09/11/poll-mitt-romney-would-handily-win-utahs-senate-seat-if-hatch-doesnt-run/ |title=Mitt Romney is considering a Senate run if Orrin Hatch retires, and a new poll shows he'd likely win – The Salt Lake Tribune |publisher=Sltrib.com |date=March 15, 2013 |access-date=September 12, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/hatch-romney/544211/ |title=Orrin Hatch Tells Friends He Plans to Retire |publisher=[[The Atlantic]] |date=October 27, 2017 |access-date=December 7, 2017}}</ref> On January 2, 2018, after Hatch announced that he would retire, Romney changed his Twitter location from Massachusetts to [[Holladay, Utah]], contributing to speculation that he was considering a Senate campaign.<ref>{{cite news|title=Romney Changes Location on Twitter as Utah Senate Seat Opens|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-02/romney-changes-location-on-twitter-as-utah-senate-seat-opens|author=Kapur, Sahil|date=January 2, 2018|publisher=[[Bloomberg News]]|access-date=January 2, 2018}}</ref> On February 16, 2018, Romney formally launched his campaign with a video message posted on Facebook and Twitter.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Reston|first1=Maeve|title=Romney announces US Senate run|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/16/politics/mitt-romney-senate-utah/index.html|website=[[CNN]]|date=February 16, 2018 |access-date=February 16, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/02/16/mitt-romney-officially-running-u-s-senate/344415002/|title=Mitt Romney is officially running for U.S. Senate|author=Rossman, Sean|work=[[USA Today]]|date=December 11, 2019|access-date=September 4, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/02/16/mitt-romney-former-presidential-nominee-announces-his-bid-for-utahs-us-senate-seat/|title=Mitt Romney outlines policies to cap his first day of campaigning for Utah's soon-to-be-open U.S. Senate seat|website=The Salt Lake Tribune}}</ref>

At the state Republican nominating convention held on April 21, 2018, Romney received 1,585 delegate votes (49.1%), finishing second to [[Utah House of Representatives|State Representative]] [[Mike Kennedy (politician)|Mike Kennedy]], with 1,642 delegate votes (50.9%). Since neither Romney nor Kennedy garnered the 60% of delegate votes necessary to claim the endorsement, they competed in a June 26 primary election.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/21/politics/romney-utah-gop-convention/index.html|title=Mitt Romney fails to secure Utah GOP nomination, will face primary|last=Reston|first=Maeve|website=[[CNN]]|date=April 21, 2018|access-date=June 27, 2018}}</ref> In the primary, Romney defeated Kennedy, 71.7–28.3%.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/26/us/elections/results-utah-primary-elections-ul.html|title=Utah Primary Election Results|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 26, 2018|access-date=June 27, 2018}}</ref>

Romney was [[2018 United States Senate election in Utah#Results 3|elected]] U.S. Senator from Utah on November 6, defeating Democratic nominee [[Jenny Wilson (politician)|Jenny Wilson]], 62.6% to 30.9%.<ref>{{Citation|last=Romboy|first=Dennis|title=What can Utah, U.S. expect from Mitt Romney in the Senate?|newspaper=[[Deseret News]]|date=November 7, 2018|url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900040899/what-can-utah-us-expect-from-mitt-romney-in-the-senate.html|access-date=November 7, 2018|archive-date=November 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108012133/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900040899/what-can-utah-us-expect-from-mitt-romney-in-the-senate.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

With his election, Romney became the third person to have served as governor of one state and senator from another state.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://editions.lib.umn.edu/smartpolitics/2017/09/14/mitt-romney-prepares-for-unusual-us-senate-bid/|title=Mitt Romney Prepares for Unusual US Senate Bid {{!}} Smart Politics|website=editions.lib.umn.edu|language=en-CA|access-date=April 1, 2018|date=September 14, 2017}}</ref> (The other two were [[William Wyatt Bibb|William W. Bibb]], who served as a [[List of United States senators from Georgia|U.S. senator from Georgia]] and then the first [[List of governors of Alabama|governor of Alabama]], and [[Sam Houston]], who was the sixth [[governor of Tennessee]] before becoming a [[List of United States senators from Texas|U.S. senator from Texas]].)<ref name=":0" />