Mitt Romney considered Ted Cruz unity ticket in bid to stop Trump, book says

Biography says Romney mulled 2016 pairing with Cruz – who he considered a ‘demagogue’ – to prevent Trump winning nomination

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.