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.

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 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,

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

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

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.

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.

American politics has shifted significantly since Donald Trump won his party's nomination. The Republican Party has embraced a new brand of conservative populism, leading to changes in traditional conflicts and coalitions within the major parties.

The Obama-Romney race in 2012 was the last in a familiar pattern in U.S. politics, which has since become defined by Donald Trump’s conservative populism.