By COLlive reporter
Third run a charm?
Mitt Romney, who has two presidential attempts in his resume, appears to be the candidate of choice for Republicans for the 2016 elections, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday.
Quoting the poll, Reuters news agency said the the former Massachusetts governor would have a slight edge over potential Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton by 45 percent to 44 percent in a general election, the poll found.
Romney was the Republican Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election. In the 2008 election he won several primaries and caucuses but lost the Republican nomination to Senator John McCain.
Among possible Republican candidates, Romney’s 19 percent put him ahead of former Florida governor Jeb Bush with 11 percent, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Dr. Ben Carson each with 8 percent each, and U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky with 6 percent, Reuters said.
U.S. Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee all had 5 percent, while 16 percent of those questioned were undecided, Reuters added.
Appearing recently at the Israeli American Council’s inaugural conference dinner at the Washington Hilton, Romney criticized President Barack Obama‘s foreign policy.
Speaking of the president’s rocky relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Romney said, “now he’s being divisive and dictatorial and demeaning to our friends.”
