Romney admits the Trump MAGA agenda he stood up to now dominates Republican Party

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In a lengthy live interview Sunday with Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union, he said that traditional conservatism had been wholly subsumed by MAGA Republicanism within the GOP, he seemed to back away from the idea that there would be a return to the kind of neoconservative policy alignment pursued by the Republican Party under the Bush administration or embemified by Romney’s own 2014 campaign for president. “MAGA is the Republican Party and Donald Trump is the Republican Party today,” Romney said, before going on to predict that the next election cycle would see that trend continue under whom he saw as the presumptive 2028 GOP nominee: JD Vance. Prompting himself to ask whether the GOP should “change”, Romney stated that the Trump faction’s successful peeling-away of working class voters from the Democratic coalition would require the party’s policies to shift to align more with working-class interests, but said that it was the Democrats who were really in “trouble” as a result. “MAGA is the Republican Party and Donald Trump is the Republican Party today.”@SenatorRomney tells @jaketapper Trump deserves credit for appealing to working class voters and predicts that JD Vance will likely be the GOP presidential nominee in 2028. pic.twitter.com/c1RUd1X6jG — State of the Union December 15, 2024 “The Democrat Party is the one in trouble.