Mitt Romney 2020?

[Young Conservative]

I'm all for Mitt Romney 2020 (#DraftMitt), but is he too old? He will be be 73, two years younger than Bernie sanders was this year? He appears to be in incredible health and certainly looks very young. I am just not sure he wants to go through it again....should Trump not run for reelection, what are his chances?

[emcee0]

Michael Dukakis 2020

[Lincoln Republican]

Mitt would be a fantastic President, one of the greatest.

But age is against him, and I do not believe he wants to put himself and his family through yet another Presidential campaign.

[History505]

I say no, especially if he is in Trump's Cabinet, the only challengers Trump will face will be coming from the Democratic side.

[pbrower2a]

This was Mitt Romney's best chance, considering that he did unusually well against a very strong incumbent President in 2012. I can't understand why he didn't run unless it was his wife's medical condition.

The only way in which he ever becomes President is the route of Gerald Ford...

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

If he runs, he will almost certainly lose the Iowa Caucus to Tim Pawlenty, who would defeat any GOP challenger there due to mega-coattails. Then, of course, Bob Dole will sweep the Super Tuesday states and win the nomination in late March after Dick Lugar and George H. W. Bush drop out and endorse his campaign. Romney's only chance is to tap Orrin Hatch for VP early on (to consolidate the Mormon vote) and paint Dole as a weak opponent to President Hillary Clinton (who will win in 2016 due to faithless electors), a "Bob Landole" if you will. As long as heavyweights like Herman Cain and Dan Quayle stay out of the race, he just might win the nomination.

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[Mister Mets]

My guess is that his best shot would be challenging Trump in a primary.

If Trump doesn't run for reelection, Romney would have to compete with an incumbent Vice President, as well as sitting Senators and Governors.

[bagelman]

My guess is that his best shot would be challenging Trump in a primary.

If Trump doesn't run for reelection, Romney would have to compete with an incumbent Vice President, as well as sitting Senators and Governors.

He's already shown himself to be a coward who will sacrifice his principles for the mere possibility of power. Not to mention his failure in 2012. The attack ads write themselves.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Romney sucking up to Trump in the past 1-2 weeks kills his credibility as a 2020 primary challenger.  This won't happen.  An incumbent President hasn't been dumped by his own party since Grover Cleveland in 1896.  (I firmly believe that if LBJ had hung in, he'd have been renominated AND re-elected.)

[TheElectoralBoobyPrize]

Why do Atlas Republicans like Romney so much? I don't see this phenomenon anywhere else. He's an overrated candidate...he only got the nomination in 2012 because his opponents were so weak and most of the GOP's "rising stars" chose to sit it out and wait until 2016.

[Hindsight was 2020]

The only one who can challenge Trump in-party in 2020 is Rand

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Michael Dukakis 2020

haha, ayy lmao

How about a unity ticket of George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter running on the theme of experience and level-headedness, while we are at it?  Who cares that they would both be in their late 90s?

[SATW]

plz stahp