Gov. Weld said he's not just aiming to court Republican voters.

“My aim is to enlarge the electorate of people voting in the Republican Party — more women voting, more millennials, more gen x-ers, more young people," he said. "And the issues I’ve been putting forward are important to those voters. Millennials are the people who are going to reap the whirlwind on both the budget deficit and on climate change. Their generation is going to suffer there, and they know that."

He touted his history of gaining votes from independents.

"I’m not appealing to a narrow sliver of the electorate, not even just to the Republican Party, and I never did," he said. "As you know, independents can vote in either party, and they would come in and vote for me six-to-one. And that’s how I got to 71 percent on the re-election. It was independent voters, it was not republicans."

Listen to the full interview with Weld below.

WBZ NewsRadio's Jim MacKay (@JimMacKayOnAir) reports