Check for a connection with David Axelrod.
We know for a fact that in 2014 or 15, Axelrod approached the GOP-e in a meeting in Jackson Hole, WY.
Romney, Ryan, McConnell and Rubio where there with him.
The general opinion was they were planning on who was going to get the support in 2016.
The meeting was posted on FR but I can’t find it.
I remember it because I thought....”why the heck is Axelrod there?”
I never assumed that Harry Reid was lying about Romney. It wouldn’t be unusual for rich well connected oligarchs like Romney not to pay taxes, by using arcane loopholes.