Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), the GOP’s 2012 nominee for president, announced Wednesday he will not seek a second term next year. In an exclusive interview with The Washington Post Romney, 76, told Dan Balz it is time for a new generation to “step up” and “shape the world they’re going to live in.” A frequent critic of Republican Party leader Donald J. Trump, Romney said he will serve the rest of his term, to January 2025.

In the WaPo interview Romney lamented the likelihood the 2024 presidential race will again be Biden v. Trump, saying “Biden is unable to lead on important matters and Trump is unwilling to lead on important matters.”

Boebert bounced: A Republican from the opposite end of the party’s spectrum, pro-Trump Rep. Lauren Boebert, of Colorado, was escorted from a performance of Beetlejuice in a Denver theater last Sunday, The Colorado Sun reports (hat tip to WaPo). A statement for her campaign manager says she was ejected from the show for taking photos, adding Boebert “appreciates the Buell Theater’s strict enforcement of their no photos policy and only wishes the Biden administration could uphold our border laws as thoroughly and vigorously.”

But The Sun contacted the Buell Theater on Monday and were told only that two unnamed people were ejected. The newspaper obtained video surveillance footage showing Boebert and a man holding hands as they were ejected from the theater. Denver Arts and Venues marketing and communications director Brian Kitts told The Sun that the couple, whom the theater would not name due to privacy concerns, were thrown out for talking loudly, vaping and using cameras.

The Sun reports that the man holding Boebert’s hand in the surveillance video is not her husband – but also that Boebert and her husband filed for divorce last April.

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