http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/279088-romney-meets-with-leader-of-third-party-effortRomney meets with leader of third-party effort
Mitt Romney met this week with William Kristol, who is pushing for a third-party alternative to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
“He came pretty close to being elected president so I thought he may consider doing it, especially since he has been very forthright in explaining why Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton should not be president of the United States,” Kristol told the Washington Post Friday.
Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, told the Post that he and Romney had met on Thursday in D.C.
Romney said Thursday at an event after the meeting that he would not vote for Trump, now the presumptive nominee, or Clinton.
“I don’t intend on support either of the major party candidates at this point,” he said, according to the Washington Examiner. And Romney plans to skip the convention this summer, along with many other prominent Republicans.
Romney reappeared in the political spotlight earlier this year to bash Trump, calling him "phony" and "a fraud," and was supportive of both Marco Rubio and John Kasich in their respective home-state primaries.
