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Complete Mitt Romney Interview: Taking On Donald Trump
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Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, said he would support an effort to deny Donald Trump the nomination at the party’s convention in July if Trump doesn’t have enough delegates to win on the first ballot.
"A person like Donald Trump, who has said what he’s said about Muslims, Mexicans, women, George Bush, John McCain, a person like that should not be the nominee of our party or be the president, and I will campaign for an alternative to Donald Trump until that avenue is no longer open," Romney told Mark Halperin in an interview for Bloomberg Television’s "With All Due Respect."