--- title: ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Accepted By Mitt Romney in Suit description: Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge with a little help from his former running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan. canonical: https://time.com/3159672/ice-bucket-mitt-romney-paul-ryan/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-22T14:04:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:40.789Z og:title: ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Accepted By Mitt Romney in Suit og:description: Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge with a little help from his former running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan. og:url: https://time.com/3159672/ice-bucket-mitt-romney-paul-ryan/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Accepted By Mitt Romney in Suit twitter:description: Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge with a little help from his former running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Mitt Romney Took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge With Some Help From Paul Ryan ## Video: Tech CEOs And Execs Participate In Ice Bucket Challenge [Watch (HLS stream): Tech CEOs And Execs Participate In Ice Bucket Challenge](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Q9KoWLfd.m3u8) (1:57)  _Published 2014-08-14. The Ice Bucket Challenge has now raised $4 million for the ALS Association due in part to the challenge catching on with everyone, even the folks in Silicon Valley._ by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Aug 22, 2014 2:04 PM UTC by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Aug 22, 2014 2:04 PM UTC Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney went were his opponent, President Barack Obama, [dared not go](http://time.com/3104483/obama-declines-ice-bucket-challenge/) and took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge — with a little help from his former running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan. Romney accepted the challenge from Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman, Sen. Rob Portman, and Salt Lake City resident Creighton Rider, who suffers from ALS. He nominated his wife Ann Romney and comedian Jason Sudeikis, who played Mitt on SNL. Are we the only ones who think his hair looked even better after the ice bucket dousing? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3159672/ice-bucket-mitt-romney-paul-ryan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3159672/ice-bucket-mitt-romney-paul-ryan/"},"headline":"Mitt Romney Took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge With Some Help From Paul Ryan","datePublished":"2014-08-22T14:04:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:40.789Z","description":"His hair stayed perfect","url":"https://time.com/3159672/ice-bucket-mitt-romney-paul-ryan/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3159672/ice-bucket-mitt-romney-paul-ryan/","name":"Mitt Romney Took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge With Some Help From Paul Ryan"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Tech CEOs And Execs Participate In Ice Bucket Challenge","description":"The Ice Bucket Challenge has now raised $4 million for the ALS Association due in part to the challenge catching on with everyone, even the folks in Silicon Valley.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/Q9KoWLfd/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-08-14T19:10:06.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Q9KoWLfd.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3159672/ice-bucket-mitt-romney-paul-ryan/","duration":"PT1M57S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3159672/ice-bucket-mitt-romney-paul-ryan/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```