Romney's vote for impeachment haunts him on return to Utah

 Daily Mail:

'Boo all you like!': Romney hits back at 2,000-strong crowd at Utah's GOP convention as they shout 'traitor' and jeer at him for voting to impeach Trump: Narrowly avoids censure from delegates
  • Senator Mitt Romney was booed on Saturday as he made a speech at the Utah Republican Party's organizing convention
  • The 2,000-strong crowd jeered after Romney, a frequent critic of former President Trump suggested that he wasn't a fan of Trump's 'character issues'
  • The motion for Romney to be censured narrowly failed, 798 to 711, in a vote by delegates to the state GOP convention 
  • Romney has faced negative backlash and a censure threat by the GOP delegation for his votes to impeach Donald Trump earlier this year
  • Romney was one of seven GOP senators who voted to convict Trump for inciting the deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6
  • The Senate ultimately voted 57-43 to acquit the former president, failing to meet the 67-vote threshold to convict - Romney is not facing re-election in 2022
  • He was the only Republican lawmaker to support both of Trump's impeachments
  • Romney, like Liz Cheney, will pay a political price for his vote to impeach President Trump on the false allegations of the Democrats in their impeachment effort.  I think he has generally been a disappointment to Republicans

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