FILE - Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, leaves a meeting of GOP senators at the National Republican Senatorial Committee offices Sept.
22, 2020 in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON - Key Republican lawmakers, including 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney, on Friday slammed President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated claim that Democrats are trying to “steal” the election, even as GOP leaders struck a more neutral tone — and others urged the White House to fight.Romney, now a senator from Utah, said Trump was within his rights to request recounts and call for investigations where evidence of irregularities exists.But Trump “is wrong to say the election was rigged, corrupt and stolen,″ Romney said on Twitter.