Ann Romney has made it clear: She does not miss the spotlight of a presidential campaign. However, as the wife of 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney admits, they are still feeling pressure to hop in the 2016 race.
During an interview with Fox News Wednesday, Romney told host Brian Kilmeade that donors and others call “all the time” about her husband’s possible entrance in the race, while adding that they are “assessing” the 2016 field as the race moves along.
“All I can say is, we are in New York City, Mitt’s been with me a lot today — over the last few days and we have been walking the streets and people are screaming out their windows, they’re — I mean, people just on the street, people stop us on the street, everyone is saying ‘come, get in, jump in,'” Romney said. “We hear it, we get a lot of phone calls, people are calling all the time, from our past donors saying ‘it’s time. It’s time to think about it again’. We are assessing — it’s not like we are making a different decision, we are on the sidelines, we made a decision in January not to jump in.”
Romney also told Kilmeade that the race is keeping the two “entertained,” while cautioning that the 2016 contest is “a long way from being over.”
“Like everyone, we are mystified by this race and entertained at the same time,” Romney said. “There’s a lot of ups and downs in a primary and we went through this too by the way in our race, a lot of ups and downs. It’s a long way from being over.”
Her comments come a day after she told Yahoo! News host Katie Couric that Donald Trump’s presence in the 2016 race is a “good thing” overall as he has helped increased the visibility of the GOP contest.
The wife of the 2012 GOP nominee is out on the interview circuit after the release of her latest memoir, “In This Together,” which talks at length about her battle with multiple sclerosis.
