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Martin Pengelly in New York

‘You have to run’: Romney urged Biden to take down Trump, book says

Mitt Romney leaves the Senate chamber.
Mitt Romney leaves the Senate chamber. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

On the night of the 2018 midterm elections, as a wave of anti-Trump sentiment swept Democrats to take control of the House, top Republican Mitt Romney urged Joe Biden to run for president.

“You have to run,” said Romney, the Republican presidential nominee Biden and Barack Obama defeated in 2012, speaking to the former vice-president by phone.

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