Romney uses Biden’s own words against him, calls for president to join him in retirement: ‘Time to transition’
Mitt Romney, the former Republican presidential nominee, tweeted Wednesday that Vice President Joe Biden should take his own advice and join him in retirement.
Romney’s tweet linked to a video of Biden from June 2016, when he said he regretted not being able to run in the last presidential election.
“Time to transition,” Romney wrote. “This election is more important than any individual. It’s about the future of our democracy.”
The tweet is a direct response to Biden’s criticism of Romney earlier this week, telling MSNBC that Romney “doesn’t have the guts” to run for president against President Donald Trump in 2020.
Romney didn’t make any direct reference to the 2020 election in his tweet, but he has been an outspoken critic of the president and made his discontent known in a scathing op-ed he wrote in August 2019, in which he called Trump’s character “deficient.”
Biden’s team didn’t immediately respond to Romney’s tweet.