Mitt Romney for President 2012 | |
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Campaign | 2012 Republican primaries 2012 U.S. presidential election |
Candidate | Mitt Romney 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003–2007) Paul Ryan U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st district (1999–2019) |
Affiliation | Republican Party |
Status | Announced: June 2, 2011 Presumptive nominee: April 25, 2012 Official nominee: August 28, 2012 Lost election: November 6, 2012 |
Headquarters | 585 Commercial Street Boston, Massachusetts |
Key people | Matt Rhoades[1] (manager) Beth Myers,[2] Peter Flaherty[3] and Eric Fehrnstrom[4] (advisors) Stuart Stevens (strategist) Ashley O'Connor (director of advertising) Rich Beeson (political director) Lanhee Chen (policy director) Gail Gitcho[5] (communications director) Andrea Saul[6] (press secretary) Spencer J. Zwick (finance chair)[7][8][9] Kathryn Biber (general counsel) Lindsay Hayes (speech writer)[10] Neil Newhouse (pollster) |
Receipts | US$483,452,332 (December 31, 2012[11]) |
Slogan | ![]() America's Comeback Team Obama Isn't Working Restore Our Future |
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Mitt Romney 2012 (archived - September 11, 2012) |
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The 2012 presidential campaign of Mitt Romney officially began on June 2, 2011, when former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney formally announced his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States, at an event in Stratham, New Hampshire. Having previously run in the 2008 Republican primaries, this was Romney's second campaign for the presidency.
He filed his organization with the Federal Elections Commission as an exploratory committee and announced the organization in a video message on April 11, 2011. He became the party's presumptive nominee with his victory in the Texas primary on May 29, 2012.
On August 11, 2012, in Norfolk, Virginia, Romney announced that Paul Ryan, the long-time U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, would be his running mate for vice president. (Later, in October 2015, Ryan was elected Speaker of the House.)[12][13]
On August 30, 2012, in Tampa, Florida, Romney formally accepted the Republican Party's nomination at the 2012 Republican National Convention.[14]
Romney's campaign came to an end on November 6, 2012, upon defeat by incumbent President Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election.[15] Romney received 60,933,500 votes, or 47.2% of the total votes cast, winning 24 states and 206 electoral votes.
Had he won, Romney would have been the first Michigan native to serve as president (as Gerald Ford was born in Nebraska), the first Mormon president, and the second governor of Massachusetts to do so, after Calvin Coolidge. Ryan would have been the first vice president from Wisconsin.
Six years later, in November 2018, Romney was elected as U.S. Senator from Utah.