{"id":64335,"date":"2015-01-30T16:22:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T22:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=64335"},"modified":"2015-01-30T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T22:22:07","slug":"romney-says-no-to-2016-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=64335","title":{"rendered":"Romney says &#8216;No&#8217; to 2016 run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/romney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-64337\" alt=\"romney\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/romney.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Republicans who would have been his potential rivals if he had sought the presidential nomination next year are praising Mitt Romney, after his announcement today that he won&#8217;t be running.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says he respects Romney&#8217;s decision to &#8220;give the next generation a chance to lead.&#8221; And former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush calls Romney a &#8220;patriot&#8221; &#8212; and says he hopes that Romney&#8217;s &#8220;days of serving our nation and our party are not over.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s even praise from the White House, where a spokesman cheered Romney&#8217;s recent comments on policies that could benefit the middle class and reduce poverty. Josh Earnest said, &#8220;That is something that is worthy of our respect.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Romney is supposed to have dinner tonight with another of the Republicans he might have had to defeat for the nomination &#8212; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. That&#8217;s according to someone familiar with what&#8217;s described as a long-planned meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Republicans who would have been his potential rivals if he had sought the presidential nomination next year are praising Mitt Romney, after his announcement today that he won&#8217;t be running. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says he respects Romney&#8217;s decision to &#8220;give the next generation a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64340,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64335\/revisions\/64340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}