At a farewell news conference in Salt Lake City on Friday, outgoing U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney said the GOP is now Donald Trump's party.

Sen. Mitt Romney has given his final remarks after seeing the Republican Party for which he was once the standard bearer drastically transform under Donald Trump.

Utah’s new senator is taking a page from predecessor Mitt Romney and pledging to be an independent voice in the upper chamber and not necessarily a “rubber stamp” for President-elect Donald Trump. Sen.

Romney, a longtime critic of the president-elect, is leaving the Senate in January, after one term representing Utah.

Utah Senator Mitt Romney, who will retire when the new Congress is sworn in this January, is showing interest in political commentary. As the new administration prepares to take office, Vance, who served with Romney in the Senate,

Donald Trump won. He won overwhelmingly. He said what he was going to do, and that’s what he’s doing,” Romney said Sunday.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is coming to grips with the fact that President-elect Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again movement are now at the heart of the Republican Party.

Sen. Mitt Romney spoke optimistically about President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration on Friday despite past disagreements with him.

His office was almost packed up when we spoke, but behind him, leaning against the wall, were two pictures of his dad, George Romney, who was governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and ran for president in 1968. The man who defeated him, Richard Nixon, made Romney the secretary of Housing and Urban Development during his first administration.

John Curtis, who was voted in to replace outgoing Sen. Mitt Romney, said Republicans should not expect him to bend to President-elect Donald Trump's will.

Sen.-elect John Curtis, Mitt Romney's Senate replacement, declares he will not be a "rubber stamp" for President-elect Donald Trump.