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Romney Receives Award For Voting To Impeach Donald Trump

On Sunday, Sen. Mitt Romney accepted the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award. He was named the recipient of the award from the JFK Foundation because of his vote to convict former President Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial. He was the first U.S. Senator in history to vote for the conviction of a president belonging to the same party. According to KUTV, the Profile in Courage award honors political figures who embrace unpopular positions “for the greater good,” at risk of their own careers. 

 

Romney’s actions have led to criticism from many Utah Republicans. For example, earlier this month, he was booed during his speech at the Utah GOP Convention.

Tyler Hewitt is the web/social media assistant at UPR. He writes stories every day, updates the website and manages the station's Twitter and Facebook pages. Tyler is a senior at Utah State University and is studying public relations, marketing, and psychology. He loves to write, listen to music, play video games, play tennis and hang out with his fiancé and cat, Juno. He is a great plant dad and recently started collecting vinyl records!