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Total Votes. Romney made a second run for the U. Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate, but was ultimately defeated by President Barack Obama in a tight race. He returned to public office in as a U. Their openness about their faith has brought the religion into the national spotlight, creating unique media attention for the Romneys and other members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
The son of George Romney, a former governor of Michigan who ran for the Republican Party's presidential nomination in he was defeated by Richard Nixon , Mitt Romney began his career in business.
A decade later, in , he ran for a seat in the U. Senate in Massachusetts, but was defeated by longtime incumbent Ted Kennedy. Romney stepped into the national spotlight in , when he took over as president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. He helped rescue the Winter Olympic Games from financial and ethical woes, and helmed the successful Salt Lake City Games in Romney parlayed his success with the Olympics into politics when he was elected governor of Massachusetts in He also signed into law a health-care reform program to provide nearly universal health care for Massachusetts residents.
After serving one term as governor, Romney declined to run for re-election and announced his bid for the U. Romney continued to keep his options open for a possible future presidential run. He maintained much of his political staff and political action committees, and raised funds for fellow Republican candidates. At a farm in New Hampshire on June 2, , Mitt Romney announced the official start of his campaign for the presidential election.
During his campaign, Romney took many standard Republican positions on taxes, the economy and fighting terrorism, while consistently and vocally criticizing his opponent, Democrat President Barack Obama. Specifically, Romney denounced President Obama's health-care reform program—a stance that earned him criticism from the press, as the president's health-care plan was similar to the Massachusetts plan that Romney supported as governor.
Additionally, throughout the presidential race, critics charged Romney with changing his position on several key issues, including abortion; Romney had supported Roe v. Wade —the U. Supreme Court decision upholding a woman's right to an abortion—while campaigning for a Senate seat in , but maintained an ardent pro-life stance throughout his campaign for the presidency. From the start of his campaign, Romney emerged as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.
In January , Romney scored a decisive victory in the New Hampshire Republican primary by capturing more than 39 percent of votes. As the race continued, Rick Santorum became his greatest competition, winning several states. However, Romney secured a substantial lead in the number of delegates needed to clinch the nomination. In April , Romney benefited from a narrowing of the field when Santorum announced that he was suspending his campaign.
That left only Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich as Republican competitors, with Gingrich soon throwing in the towel as well. Romney's campaign met with negative publicity in July , when President Obama's campaign ran ads claiming that his opponent was the head of Bain Capital until , not , as was previously stated.
Around that same time, news reports began to circulate regarding economy-stifling practices by Bain Capital; according to the reports, Romney's company had invested in several businesses that specialized in relocating jobs overseas.
Romney's campaign fired back with its own political ads, which claimed that Obama was more interested in helping his donors than looking out for the American public. Here's a review of Romney's political timeline to date, and a look into his possible future prospects. Mitt Romney didn't start his career in politics right away.
Romney test the political waters for the first when, after taking a leave of absence from Bain Capital, positioned himself as a Republican challenger to longtime Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy in the election. Kennedy won In , he took another leave from Bain to the organization's president and CEO.
Romney caught the political bug again -- but this time in his longtime home state of Massachusetts. Romney answered the call, running and winning the Massachusetts gubernatorial bid in the election against an embattled Republican incumbent who intended to serve a full term. He used the gubernatorial platform to raise his presence in national politics, taking a prime slot at the Republican National Convention.
In , just two years into his four-year term, Romney announced that he wouldn't seek re-election. That's when he set his eyes on his next political step. Romney first targeted the presidency during the election.
After that loss, Romney's actions made it clear to many that he wasn't out of politics for good. He created a political action committee and continued to give political speeches.
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