Could the GOP's last two presidential nominees go head-to-head in 2020?
After Senator-elect Mitt Romney wrote an op-ed critical of President Trump on Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that the idea of a Republican challenging Trump in 2020 has "suddenly turned more serious," whether that challenger be former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley or Romney himself.
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Romney, who hasn't even officially started his new Senate job yet, has not signaled that he might run against Trump and apparently hasn't been involved in this behind-the-scenes 2020 chatter. In fact, he suggested in June 2018 that the president probably has the 2020 nomination locked up, predicting that he will be "re-nominated by my party easily" and will be "re-elected solidly," per Politico.
Still, a lot may change in 2019, and former White House strategist Stephen Bannon apparently sees Romney's recent op-ed as the beginning of a movement to challenge Trump from the right, simply telling The Post, "It begins."
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