Mitt Romney Will Weigh In on State of the Presidential Race This Thursday

BOSTON, MA - Popular former Massachusetts governor and one-time Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will weigh in on the state of the 2016 presidential race Thursday in Utah, speaking two days after Donald Trump swept seven of the GOP's Super Tuesday primaries, including the Bay State.

Romney said in a media advisory sent out Wednesday he will address the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah on the presidential race, CBS News reports.

The 2012 Republican nominee, Romney took a pass on this year's presidential race early on. His announcement Wednesday nonetheless stirred speculation and even pleas to reverse that decision. An aide to Romney reportedly squashed those rumors, saying the speech would be neither an entry nor an endorsement (but still worth covering).

The speech seems most likely to center on Trump. Romney is no fan of Republicans' newly solidified front-runner, as evidenced by his Twitter account:

Trump won big in Romney's one-time stomping grounds of Massachusetts Tuesday, outrunning his closest Republican competitor by a whopping 30-point margin. Romney has also recently weighed in, via Twitter, on the newly stirred controversy surrounding Trump's taxes, which the New York billionaire has declined to release.

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