Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, has openly criticized former President Donald Trump and other members of the Republican Party. But Romney has not publicly threatened to join Democrats, as some social media posts claim.
Perhaps because of this, some social media users are baselessly claiming the senator has threatened to switch to the opposing party.
"Senator #MittRomney threatens to leave the Republican party and join Democrats," read text above a zoomed-in photo of RomneyThe post had amassed more than 29,000 likes by July 27. The image and text appear to have originated on X, formerly Twitter. The X post provided no evidence to back the claim, but garnered more than 1.5 million views, and a community note saying it’s false."There is zero truth to misinformation spread by online bots," Waltz said in an email to PolitiFact., Ann, as a write-in candidate in 2016 rather than support Trump.
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