| Part of 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries | |
 Mitt Romney speaking at the University of Utah on March 3, 2016 | |
| Date | March 3, 2016 |
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| 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 |
| 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.
- ^ "Special Address: Mitt Romney on the 2016 Election". University of Utah. Archived from the original on February 24, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2017.