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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) despises Donald Trump and everything he stands for. The Senator wants the former president out of the Republican Party for good. Romney is not running for reelection and is worth over a quarter of a billion dollars. Yet he is scared to death to get out in public and say: I am voting for Kamala Harris." The best he can muster is: "I've made it very clear that I don't want Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States." He could mention who he does want. Maybe Chase Oliver? Jill Stein? Inquiring minds want to know. What a coward.
The worst part of Romney's cowardice is that his refusal to endorse Harris and campaign for her increases the chances that Trump will win. If he, like Liz Cheney, were to go out there every day in a different swing state calling out Trump as an incompetent bigot and liar interested only in himself, he could give many traditional Republicans "permission" to vote for a Democrat this one time. It could really help, especially with LDS Church members in Arizona and Nevada. Yet Romney won't do it.
Some reports say that he is afraid if Trump wins, Trump will have Romney and his family arrested on phony charges. Even though Romney can afford the best lawyers, being put through the wringer would be punishment enough for him, so he doesn't want to antagonize Trump any more than he has already done. Of course, if he actively campaigned for Harris, he might be able to avoid the problem by not having Trump in the White House, but apparently he is so risk averse that he doesn't want to take the chance. If someday, someone writes a book entitled Profiles in Cowardice, he is sure to get a chapter. (V)