Mitt Romney's 2016 anti-Trump speech

Mitt Romney's 2016 anti-Trump speech

Part of 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries
Mitt Romney speaking at the University of Utah on March 3, 2016
Date	March 3, 2016 (2016-03-03)
Time	9:30 a.m. (MST)[1]
Duration	20 minutes
Venue	Libby Gardner Hall, University of Utah
Location	Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Coordinates	40°45′54″N 111°50′35″W / 40.765010°N 111.843057°W / 40.765010; -111.843057
Type	Speech
Theme	Anti-Trumpism
Patron(s)	Hinckley Institute of Politics Forum
Outcome	Trump nominated and elected Romney later elected senator, voted to convict Trump twice in impeachment trials.

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On March 3, 2016, U.S. Republican politician Mitt Romney delivered a major speech for the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the Libby Gardner Hall in the University of Utah. In that speech, he denounced Donald Trump, who was then the front-runner in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries. He urged citizens to use tactical voting in the remaining primaries and caucuses to maximize the chance of denying Trump a delegate majority.

Romney's speech represented an almost unprecedented attack by a major U.S. party's most recent presidential nominee against the party's current front-runner for the nomination. Trump dismissed the comments, criticizing Romney for his losses in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections and for "working with the establishment." Two months after the speech, Trump secured the Republican Party's presidential nomination and subsequently won the general election and became the President of the United States.