Bush to host Utah fund-raiser with Romney

President Bush is coming to Utah next month to raise money for fellow Republicans — with some help from former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who collected millions of dollars in the state for his own campaign.

A source confirmed that Bush and Romney will host a fund-raiser in Utah in late May to benefit the Republican National Committee. The White House could not confirm the president's visit.

Bush, who will leave office in January after serving two terms, has been a big fund-raiser for his party. According to CBS News, he has attended more than 300 political fund-raisers and taken in more than three-quarters of a billion dollars.

Romney, though, has no equal in Utah. He raised more than $6 million for his now-finished White House run from Utahns who know him as the former leader of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Romney won the state's Republican presidential primary on Feb. 5 with 90 percent of the vote but dropped out after a poor showing overall on Super Tuesday. He is now considered a potential vice-presidential pick for the presumptive GOP nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain.