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Mitt Romney is expected to call Donald Trump “a fraud and a phony” in a speech scheduled to begin at 11:30AM Eastern. All cable news networks are covering the speech and a live bootleg video stream is embedded below. Watch along with us and weigh in.

This will solve everything. Via the Washington Post: Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, plans to give a major address Thursday about the state of the current presidential race that has consumed the GOP with chaos. Romney, who briefly considered running again before announcing last January that he would take a pass, plans to deliver remarks Thursday morning at …

Mediaite reports: Former GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney called in to Fox host Neil Cavuto‘s show Wednesday afternoon, and speculated that Donald Trump might be deliberately concealing information about his net worth and donation habits from the American voters. Trump, Romney noted, had done a fine job harnessing people’s anger with a “political class that’s been fiddling and diddling,” leading …

UPDATE BELOW: Rubio denies report. Huffington Post has the exclusive: In a major development in the Republican presidential race, 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney will endorse Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for president, The Huffington Post has learned from two Republican sources. Details of Romney’s endorsement were still being worked out as of Sunday morning. The sources said that the former …

As you can see, Teabagistan is ever so pissed about The Hill reporting on the lion-killer’s donation to Romney.

Via Talking Points Memo: Voters who cast their ballots for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in the last election have a higher opinion of the scandal-plagued Duggar family than of President Barack Obama, according to a poll provided Tuesday to TPM. A survey conducted by the Democratic-leaning firm Public Policy Polling found that 67 percent of respondents who voted for …

Via Fox News: Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and five-time heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield squared off in the ring Friday at a charity fight night event in Salt Lake City. Romney, 68, and Holyfield, 52, sparred, if you could call it that, for just two short rounds before Romney ran away from the boxer and threw in the …

Via NBC News: In this corner, weighing in at 236 pounds: Evander Holyfield, the former heavyweight champion of the world. And in this corner, weighing in at 179 pounds — Mitt Romney? The former Republican presidential nominee? Relax. It’s for a good cause: They’re stepping into the ring Friday night in Salt Lake City to raise money for Charity Vision, …

Via the Associated Press: Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will not run for president in 2016. Three weeks after unexpectedly saying he was considering a third campaign for the White House, the former Massachusetts governor told members of his staff during a Friday conference call that he is out of race. Romney jumped back into the presidential discussion on …

Via Bloomberg: Late Thursday evening, Romney’s political operation sent scores of supporters an email under his name inviting them to join a Friday morning conference call to be led by Romney himself for “an update.” The email was signed “All the best, Mitt.” Those who have been helping Romney make up his mind say there are three factors in favor …

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Via the Washington Post: Hillary Rodham Clinton holds double-digit leads over potential Republican challengers Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney as the likely Democratic presidential candidate moves closer to entering the race, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds. Although Clinton, Bush and Romney are all longtime politicians and members of political dynasties, registered voters are less likely to count that …

Via Talking Points Memo: Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R) told a group of donors on Friday that he’s considering running for president in 2016, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited “people present” for the former 2012 Republican presidential nominee’s comments. If he did run, it would be a third presidential bid for Romney. The news comes as former …

Via Reuters: Among possible Republican candidates, Romney’s 19 percent put him ahead of former Florida governor Jeb Bush with 11 percent, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Ben Carson each with 8 percent each, and U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky with 6 percent. Carson, a former neurosurgeon with no political experience, is a conservative commentator and author of “One …

After telling Fox News that her husband would have prevented the current ISIS mess, Ann Romney hinted at Mitt 2016, coyly saying, “We will see.”

As to what Romney was right about, exactly, the National Republican Senatorial Committee does not say.

“He’s a RINO, Just ignore him,” said every teabagger. UPDATE: And this makes three McCains.

Mitt Romney was on Meet The Press today where he slammed Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal, which the right is resurrecting as Hillary’s run for president grows more likely. Romney: “He embarrassed the nation. He breached his responsibility, I think, as an adult and as a leader in his relationship. and I think that’s very unfortunate.”