Romney didn’t want to run for President, says son
US: No one wanted to be president less than Mitt Romney, his son said
in an interview out Sunday that raises new questions about the candidacy
of the losing Republican nominee.
In an interview with the Boston Globe examining what went wrong with
the Romney campaign, his eldest son Tagg explains that his father had
been a reluctant candidate from the start.
After failing to win the 2008 Republican nomination, Romney told his
family he would not run again and had to be persuaded to enter the 2012
White House race by his wife Ann and son Tagg.
“He wanted to be president less than anyone I've met in my life. He
had no desire... to run,” Tagg Romney said. “If he could have found
someone else to take his place... he would have been ecstatic to step
aside.” Mitt Romney “is a very private person who loves his family
deeply and wants to be with them. He loves his country, but he doesn't
love the attention,” his son said.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and multi-billionaire
businessman, has been widely criticized for blaming his loss in the
November 6 election on President Barack Obama's “gifts” to Latinos,
women and the poor.
AFP
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