Since launching in May the site has received nearly 116,000 signatures and Evans had promised that “all petition signatures will be hand delivered to Mitt Romney.”
The group was planning a \"national launch\" in South Carolina for late August, but Evans told the Deseret News that the event has since been canceled.
Romney has ruled the possibility of another White House bid.
Speaking to the New York Times in January Romney did not mince words: “No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. People are always gracious and say, ‘Oh, you should run again.’ I’m not running again.”
“I want to make sure that we take the country in a different direction,” Romney added. “I think that Chris Christie and Paul Ryan and Jeb Bush and Scott Walker, and the list goes on, have a much better chance of doing that, and so I will support one of them as they become the nominee.”
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