Romney Says GOP Has ‘Strayed’ from Core Values

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) told CNN that the Republican Party “has taken a different course” from its core values in recent years.

Said Romney: “The party that I knew was very concerned about Russia and Putin and Kim Jong-un and North Korea and we pushed back aggressively against them. We were a party concerned about balancing the budget. We believed in trade with other nations.”

He added: “We strayed from that. I don’t see us returning to that for a long time.”

However, Romney stopped short of saying he would ever leave the party.