Failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney made some surprising remarks recently. Speaking at a conference of donors Romney predicted a major Trump victory in 2020.

According to Fox News:

Mitt Romney addressed a closed-door tech summit in Utah on Thursday, telling the room he thinks President Donald Trump — the man he once called a “phony” and a “fraud” — will “solidly” win re-election in 2020, reports said.

Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, now running for a U.S. Senate seat in Utah, told a group of GOP donors that Trump will “easily” be the party’s nominee and go on to beat his Democratic rival, Politico reported.

“I think that not just because of the strong economy and the fact that people are going to see increasingly rising wages, but I think it’s also true because I think our Democrat friends are likely to nominate someone who is really out of the mainstream of American thought and will make it easier for a president who’s presiding over a growing economy,” Romney said.

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Romney’s criticism of Trump has cooled since launching his own Senate bid earlier this year following the announcement of U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch’s retirement. The two rivals have appeared to embrace each other, with the president giving his “full support” for Romney’s Senate candidacy in February.

Romney was a vocal trump critic and even admitted to not voting for Trump, choosing instead write in the name of his wife. In true Mitt fashion, he has changed his opinion when it becomes convenient for him.