“The only place in America where you can find Mitt Romney Republicans is on MSNBC,” said Andrew Surabian, a GOP strategist and a former Trump White House official. “The easiest shot you can take right now as a Republican is a shot against Mitt Romney because his only constituency lies within the beltway and not with actual Republican voters across the country.”
Surabian was hardly the only MAGA loyalist or GOP figure to take such a shot. Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted that jealousy is “a drink best served warm and Romney just proved it.” Matt Schlapp, a prominent Trump surrogate and lobbyist whose wife Mercedes Schlapp is a senior White House official, posted several tweets mocking Romney on Wednesday. And Sen. Rand Paul convened a conference call with reporters entirely and explicitly dedicated to responding to Romney’s Post column.
“I don’t think the president deserves to have a new senator” coming in and “attacking his character,” Paul said on the call, adding that Romney is getting things off on the “wrong foot.”
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