Mitt Romney says that he will not vote for either Donald Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE or Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhat Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Bipartisan praise pours in after Ginsburg's death Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death MORE as America’s next president.

“I don’t intend on support either of the major party candidates at this point,” the 2012 GOP presidential nominee said Thursday night at the American Friends of The Hebrew University gala, according to The Washington Examiner.

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"I wish we had better choices, and I keep hoping that somehow things will get better, and I just don’t see an easy answer from where we are now.”

Romney added that he has no interest in launching an independent campaign to offer voters an alternative to Clinton or Trump.

“No, I’m certainly going to be hoping that we find someone who I have confidence in who becomes the nominee,” he said. "I see way too much demagoguery and populism on both sides of the aisle, and I only hope and aspire we’ll see more greatness.

“I don’t know what happens when elect somebody to the White House on what they’ll do as opposed to what they’re saying, but I certainly think this is a critical time for freedom, a critical time for America.”

An aide to Romney on Thursday said that the former Massachusetts governor plans on skipping the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July.

Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush also will not attend the event, where Trump is expected to formally become the party's standard-bearer.

Clinton, meanwhile, leads Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 Biden's fiscal program: What is the likely market impact? McConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security MORE (I-Vt.) in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination by several hundred delegates.