Tagg Romney: My Dad Could Win, But Everyone Would Be Gunning for Him

Mitt Romney bowed out of the 2016 presidential race today,but according to his son Tagg, it’s not necessarily because he doesn’t think he can win. Romney’s son spoke out in an interview with The Boston Globe today about his father’s decision-making.

The young Romney had been encouraging his dad to run for president again, but the elder announced today he’s decided against it. His rationale: “I feel that it is critical that America elect a conservative leader to become our next president… I do not want to make it more difficult for someone else to emerge who may have a better chance of becoming that president.”

Tagg Romney believes his father would win, but everyone would be gunning for him yet again:

“It’s as much of a gut thing as anything else. Yeah, he could win the nomination, but all of the guns were going to be trained on him. And coming out of it we would face Hillary Clinton. She’d be the first female nominee, have a lot of money coming out. Given how tough the primary would have been, his calculation was he would emerge not in a position of strength to take her on.”

So no threepeat for Mitt, sadly.

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