Trump fires back at Romney
WASHINGTON - Sen.-elect Mitt Romney's scathing attack on President Donald Trump - and the withering response it provoked - has rung in the new year by intensifying the debate about the future of the Republican Party.
In the war between old-guard Republicans and Trump's more populist GOP, Romney presented himself as a dissident leader, writing an op-ed article in Tuesday's Washington Post that concluded, "the president has not risen to the mantle of the office."
But while some Senate Republicans privately share that view, few are likely to publicly follow Romney's lead in a party that has been remade in Trump's image over the last two years.
"I won big, and he didn't," Trump shot
