The mayor of Riverton, Utah, challenging his state’s junior senator, W. Mitt Romney, told RedState what drives him to take on the 76-year-old Black Lives Matter supporter and sworn enemy of President Donald Trump as he campaigns for his second term.
“I’ll put us on a path to a balanced budget. I’ll bring an end to illegal immigration. I’ll stop federal spending overreach; I’ll confirm conservative justices,” said Mayor Trent Staggs, who has led his city since 2017.
Staggs continued:
That is something that resonates with me and many Utahans and something we expected of Mitt Romney, and he’s not done it—and just repeatedly to see the way in which he allows personal beefs to get in the way of good governance.
We need somebody who’s bold, who’s gonna push back and fight. That’s typified my career. In my 10 years in elected office here as a local politician, enough people had come to me and said: ‘We need to change there in D.C., I agreed with them.’
The husband and father of two said his decision to take on Romney, who served as Massachusetts governor from 2003 to 2007 and in 2012 was the GOP’s presidential nominee, was a slow burn: