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“If the other candidates can find common ground, I believe we can nominate a person who can win the general election and who will represent the values and policies of conservatism,” he said. It was, in effect, an argument for a contested convention, which would come only if Trump couldn’t win enough delegates to capture the nomination on the first ballot. Romney didn’t endorse a candidate – saying that, due to the party’s delegate apportionment process, he’d vote for Rubio in Florida or Kasich in Ohio, if he lived in any of those states, when they vote on March 15. The remarkable speech reflected the splintering of the Republican Party, as party leaders and statesmen increasingly rebuke their front-runner. He also amplified the stakes of the election, arguing that a Hillary Clinton presidency would be damaging, as well.

He said any of the party’s other candidates – Florida Sen. If Trump had said 4 years ago the things he says today about the KKK, Muslims, Mexicans, disabled, I would NOT have accepted his endorsement- Mitt Romney March 3, 2016īut now Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee, is attempting to play the role of party elder during a speech at the University of Utah. “If Trump had said 4 years ago the things he says today about the KKK, Muslims, Mexicans, disabled, I would NOT have accepted his endorsement.” Romney tweeted after his own speech but before Trump’s that had the New York businessman made similar statements about the KKK and others in 2012, he would not have accepted the endorsement. READ: Trump: Romney ‘would have dropped to his knees’ for my endorsement He said Romney thought about running again in 2016, but “chickened out.” And I wasn’t happy about it, I’ll be honest, because I am not a fan of Barack Obama, because I backed Mitt Romney – I backed Mitt Romney. He said of 2012: “That was a race, I have to say, folks, that should have been won … I don’t know what happened to him. I could have said, ‘Mitt, drop to your knees’ – he would have dropped to his knees,” he said. Trump hit back by mocking Romney’s 2012 loss at a campaign rally in Portland, Maine – pointing to Romney’s efforts to secure Trump’s endorsement. There’s irony in Romney’s speech: Just four years ago, he courted Trump’s endorsement – even after Trump had led the “birther” controversy against President Barack Obama, insisting that Obama release his birth certificate to prove he is an American citizen. Romney said that “dishonesty is Donald Trump’s hallmark,” pointing to his “bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third-grade theatrics.”

#Mitt romney put your records on free

He’s playing members of the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House, and all we get is a lousy hat.” “His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. “Here’s what I know: Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud,” Romney said. Mitt Romney delivered a sweeping broadside against Donald Trump on Thursday, laying into the Republican presidential front-runner with a sharper attack than any of the party’s 2016 contenders have made against the billionaire business mogul.