Utah’s new senator is taking a page from predecessor Mitt Romney and pledging to be an independent voice in the upper chamber and not necessarily a “rubber stamp” for President-elect Donald Trump. Sen.

At a farewell news conference in Salt Lake City on Friday, outgoing U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney said the GOP is now Donald Trump's party.

Sen. Mitt Romney has given his final remarks after seeing the Republican Party for which he was once the standard bearer drastically transform under Donald Trump.

Utah Senator Mitt Romney, who will retire when the new Congress is sworn in this January, is showing interest in political commentary. As the new administration prepares to take office, Vance, who served with Romney in the Senate,

Romney, a longtime critic of the president-elect, is leaving the Senate in January, after one term representing Utah.

Donald Trump won. He won overwhelmingly. He said what he was going to do, and that’s what he’s doing,” Romney said Sunday.

GOP Senator Mitt Romney said on Sunday that MAGA Republicanism now wholly dominates the Republican Party, echoing the skepticism of those who have been waiting for some kind of “post-Trump” Republican Party to emerge.

Utah Sen. Mitt Romney will speak with local reporters Friday morning in Salt Lake City as he prepares to wrap up his first and only term in the U.S. Senate.

American politics has shifted significantly since Donald Trump won his party's nomination. The Republican Party has embraced a new brand of conservative populism, leading to changes in traditional conflicts and coalitions within the major parties.

Sen.-elect John Curtis, Mitt Romney's Senate replacement, declares he will not be a "rubber stamp" for President-elect Donald Trump.

His office was almost packed up when we spoke, but behind him, leaning against the wall, were two pictures of his dad, George Romney, who was governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and ran for president in 1968. The man who defeated him, Richard Nixon, made Romney the secretary of Housing and Urban Development during his first administration.