Mitt Romney makes bold predictions for 2028 GOP presidential nomination

Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has revealed who he believes is destined to lead the Republicans into the next election in 2028.

In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union On Sunday, the Utah senator said he believes Vice President-elect JD Vance will take over the mantle from President-elect Donald Trump.

“If you were to ask me who the nominee will be in 2028, I think it would be JD, Vance,” Romney said. “He’s smart, eloquent, part of the MAGA movement.”

Tapper pointed out how Romney had been “pretty tough” on the Ohio senator a few months ago when he said he didn’t respect him.

“I’m not going to rehash history, and we’ve worked together in the Senate since then,” he said.

Romney also argued that Trump’s plans for policy did not match voters’ concerns, despite him storming to a landslide victory in November.

“Is the party going to have to change? The Republican Party has become the party of the working class, the middle class voter, and you have to give Donald Trump credit for doing that and taking that away from the Democrats,” he said.

“One of the challenges in my party is that our policies do not necessarily align with the interests of our voters, and therefore there will be some reorientation that will be necessary in my party.”

The former presidential candidate reiterated that it was the Democrats who ignored voters’ biggest concerns during the campaign this year.

“I don’t know how they recover,” he said. “They’ve lost their base. Union men and girls have left the Democratic Party and are voting Republican, and the Democratic Party is seen not as rich people but as college professors and woke scolds, and that’s not an attractive feature.”

“How could they have so badly misread the public mood? Did they not understand how upset people are about inflation? But President Biden was out there saying, ‘Bidenomics.’ Like, really? Can’t you see what people see when they go to the grocery store?”

Despite being a fierce critic of Donald Trump, Romney said he was “willing to live” with the fact that many often disagreed with his views on the state of the Republican Party.

But he remained tight-lipped about who he voted for this year, joking that the secret ballot was a “wonderful” thing.

He also admitted that he was wrong in his predictions Trump would not win the election. Americans will have to wait another four years to find out if he is wrong about his prediction of the Republican Party’s presidential nominee.