Mitt Romney on 2016: 'Circumstances can change'

Mitt Romney on 2016: &#039;Circumstances can change&#039;

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last updated 8 January 2015

Mitt Romney says he may run for president once again, but only because he's not a soothsayer.

In an interview Tuesday on The Hugh Hewitt Show, the former Massachusetts governor and twice-failed presidential candidate said he wasn't planning to run because, "someone else has a better chance than I do." However, Mitt still cracked the door a teensy bit for a 2016 bid of his own, adding that "circumstances can change."

"Let's say all the guys that were running all came together and said, 'Hey, we've decided we can't do it, you must do it,'" he said. "That's the one of a million we're thinking about."

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So there you have it: There's a one in a million chance we'll see Mitt Romney 3.0.

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Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.