Guess who former VP Joe Biden wants to run for Senate in Utah: Mitt Romney [View all]

Park City • Former Vice President Joe Biden is encouraging someone unusual, at least for a Democrat, to run for the Senate seat now held by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah: Mitt Romney.

Biden told Romney he should run as they spoke together on stage in a private event at Romney's annual invitation-only summit over the weekend for his supporters, businessmen and Republican power brokers.

Romney reacted only by smiling, according to reports from some at the event. Romney, of course, was the Republican presidential nominee who lost to the Barack Obama-Biden ticket in 2012.

Matt Waldrip, executive director of the E2 Summit, said the gathering fosters willingness among people of different backgrounds to work together, even Romney and Biden.

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