Mitt Romney

Former U.S. Senator for Utah (2019-2025) · R-UT · 📍 All of Utah's Republicans

📁 Former member

Did not run in 2024; left the Senate January 3, 2025.

Voted to convict President Trump twice.

📋 The short version

Romney was the first senator in history to vote to convict a president of his own party, in 2020, and he voted to convict again in 2021. He voted for Ketanji Brown Jackson, for the 2022 gun-control law, for the Respect for Marriage Act and for the Biden-Schumer border deal. He retired rather than face Utah Republicans in 2024.

🗳️ How Mitt Romney voted on the key votes

8 of 8 votes cast with the Democrats (weighted: 100%). Votes against the MAGA side are listed first.

Vote	Date	Their vote	Record
🛂 Advance the Biden-Schumer border deal Senate · MAGA side: Nay	Feb 7, 2024	Voted with Democrats	Official ↗
💵 Pass the $1.7 trillion lame-duck omnibus Senate · MAGA side: Nay	Dec 22, 2022	Voted with Democrats	Official ↗
👪 Pass the Respect for Marriage Act Senate · MAGA side: Nay	Nov 29, 2022	Voted with Democrats	Official ↗
🛡️ Pass the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (gun control) Senate · MAGA side: Nay	Jun 23, 2022	Voted with Democrats	Official ↗
🧑‍⚖️ Confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court Senate · MAGA side: Nay	Apr 7, 2022	Voted with Democrats	Official ↗
💵 Pass Joe Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill Senate · MAGA side: Nay	Aug 10, 2021	Voted with Democrats	Official ↗
⚖️ Advance Nancy Pelosi's January 6 commission Senate · MAGA side: Nay	May 28, 2021	Voted with Democrats	Official ↗
⚖️ Convict President Trump in the second impeachment trial Senate · MAGA side: Nay	Feb 13, 2021	Voted with Democrats	Official ↗

📌 On the record

Feb 5, 2020 Voted to convict President Trump of abuse of power in the first impeachment trial, the first senator ever to vote to convict a president of his own party. Reuters ↗
Sep 13, 2023 Announced in September 2023 that he would not run again. CBS News ↗

⚖️ In fairness: their side

Romney says he voted his conscience on both impeachments.