FILE PHOTO: U.S.Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) speaks at a news conference about the Tobacco to 21 Act, which would raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products and e-cigarettes to 21, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 8, 2019. Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters.

Romney congratulates President-elect Biden

Politics

Sen. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, is congratulating President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

The Utah Republican tweeted Saturday that he and his wife know Biden and Harris "as people of good will and admirable character." He says, "We pray that God may bless them in the days and years ahead."

Romney, President Donald Trump's most vocal critic within the Republican Party, said Friday that Trump was "damaging the cause of freedom" and inflaming "destructive and dangerous passions" by claiming, without foundation, that the election was rigged and stolen from him.

Trump has so far refused to concede and is promising unspecified legal challenges.

Romney had said earlier in the year that he wasn't voting for Trump. He didn't say for whom he did vote, however.

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