Alarmed by Donald Trump’s growing momentum, Mitt Romney delivered a “State of the 2016 President Election” speech Thursday to a turn-away audience, many of whom had been waiting for three hours, at the Hinckley Institute of the University of Utah.
That the senior statesman of the Republican party should use his influence to deflate the front-running candidate indicates just how serious and even catastrophic the prospect of a Trump candidacy is to many Republicans. A #NeverTrump movement has materialized that has only been galvanized after Trump’s Super Tuesday victories with urgent efforts to stop him led by corporate executives, financiers and Republican strategists.
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