Mitt Romney is about to address the GOP presidential race in a surprise speech
The former governor of Massachusetts and 2012 GOP presidential nominee will address the Hinckley Institute of Politics Forum at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Thursday, per his office.
Romney has yet to endorse a candidate, although it was rumored last month that he'd endorse Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Rubio's camp later denied those rumors.
"A disqualifying & disgusting response by @realDonaldTrump to the KKK. His coddling of repugnant bigotry is not in the character of America," Romney tweeted on Monday after Trump said he didn't know enough about former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke or white supremacists to denounce them.
Trump later said it was because of a faulty earpiece.
On taxes, Romney has repeatedly said Trump could be hiding a "bombshell" in his returns.
"Well, I think there's something there," he told Fox News host Neil Cavuto last week. "Either he's not anywhere near as wealthy as he says he is, or he hasn't been paying the kind of taxes we would expect him to pay. Or perhaps he hasn't been giving money to the vets or the disabled, like he's been telling us he's been doing."
"I criticized Mitt Romney for losing that election. He should have won that election," Trump said during last week's GOP debate in Houston, Texas.
"He ran a terrible campaign," he added. "He was a terrible candidate. That's what I criticized Mitt Romney [for]. He ran one terrible campaign! That's an election that should have been won."