Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney may have had their tete-a-tete in Salt Lake on Thursday, but Romney’s top aides are gathering in Boston on Friday to continue to figure out next steps, CNN has confirmed.
The meeting will be with the usual suspects in Romneyworld — including former top advisers and friends. The meeting was first reported by the National Review, and is likely to include former top aides Beth Myers and Eric Fehrnstrom, son Tagg and adviser and fundraiser Spencer Zwick.
Multiple sources with knowledge caution that the Romney people are now talking and meeting constantly, so one meeting is no more important than another — including this one. But it’s clear the possibility of a Romney run is moving into a new — more active — phase as Romney competes with Bush and others for money and campaign staff.
One top Romney fundraiser and close friend tells CNN that he “believes strongly” that Romney will run.
“And if he does, this time we will see the real Mitt,” the source said.
That notion, in fact, has been a constant refrain from Romney allies — that he was so buttoned-up in the last campaign, the voters did not understand who he was. It’s a do-over, they believe, in which his experience as a candidate will differentiate him from the rest of the field.