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Martin Pengelly in New York

Mitt Romney mulled unity ticket with ‘scary’ Cruz to stop Trump, book says

Mitt Romney dines with Donald Trump at the Jean Georges restaurant in Manhattan in November 2016, shortly after Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the election.
Mitt Romney dines with Donald Trump at the Jean Georges restaurant in Manhattan in November 2016, shortly after Trump won the election. Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Mitt Romney considered a desperate, third presidential bid in 2016, aiming to stop Donald Trump as part of an unlikely unity ticket with Ted Cruz – a hard-right Texas senator who Romney privately considered “scary” and “a demagogue”, a new book reports.

“Romney was willing to wage a quixotic and humiliating presidential bid if that’s what it took,” McKay Coppins writes in Romney: A Reckoning, a biography of the 2012 Republican nominee written in close cooperation with its subject.

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