--- title: Mitt Romney to Weigh in on Donald Trump, 2016 Election description: Mitt Romney is giving a speech Thursday on the state of the 2016 presidential race canonical: https://time.com/4245127/mitt-romney-trump-2016-speech-utah/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-02T18:59:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:49:33.567Z article:section: Politics og:title: Mitt Romney to Weigh in on 2016 Chaos og:description: As Donald Trump is pulling away og:url: https://time.com/4245127/mitt-romney-trump-2016-speech-utah/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75eba719de8fb175/69887f260a4a22ae8f9c88ae/mitt-romney-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: mitt-romney-donald-trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mitt Romney to Weigh in on 2016 Chaos twitter:description: As Donald Trump is pulling away twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75eba719de8fb175/69887f260a4a22ae8f9c88ae/mitt-romney-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mitt Romney to Weigh in on 2016 Chaos > Sponsored content. 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RAW-Super Tuesday-Trump-v1_ by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Mar 2, 2016 6:59 PM UTC RAW-Super Tuesday-Trump-v1 by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Mar 2, 2016 6:59 PM UTC Mitt Romney is giving a speech Thursday on the state of the 2016 presidential race, hours before the next Republican debate and at a moment [Donald Trump is threatening to run away with the party’s nomination](http://time.com/4244460/how-republicans-hope-to-stop-trump/). Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 nominee, [has been increasingly critical of Trump](http://time.com/4237647/donald-trump-mitt-romney-twitter-taxes/) as the billionaire business mogul has gained traction in the race. Trump had [a dominating Super Tuesday performance](http://time.com/4244278/super-tuesday-primary-results-donald-trump-ted-cruz-marco-rubio/), winning seven states. Romney, who briefly mounting another White House bid this cycle, is not expected to make an endorsement. Romney will give his speech at the Hinckley Institute of Politics Forum at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City at 11:30 p.m. E.T.  ## Transcript I am a unifier. Once we get all of this finished I'm gonna go after one person, that's Hillary Clinton on the assumption she's allowed to run. I watched Hillary's speech and she's talking about wages have been poor, and everything's poor, and everything's badly but we're gonna make it. She's been there for so long. [ LAUGH ] I mean, if she hasn't straightened it out by now She's not gonna straighten it out in the next four years. It's just gonna become worse and worse. She wants to make America whole again and I'm trying to figure out what is that all about. Make America great again is gonna be much better than making America whole again. They're declaring Marco Rubio the big loser of the night, which is true. He didn't win anything. He hasn't won anything period. And by the way, and I have to tell, and he was very, very nasty. I've never heard a person get up and speak on an evening like this and be so nasty, but he's got a right to be nasty. He hasn't won anything and he's not gonna win very much. And I think, honestly, we've done something that almost nobody thought could be done. And I'm very proud of it. And I just want to leave you with this. I am a unifier. I would love to see the Republican party and everybody get together and unify. 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