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

[marmar]

(Guardian UK) 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.

The same night, Romney was elected a US senator from Utah, a post from which he would twice vote to convict Donald Trump in impeachment trials.

Romney’s exhortation to a man then seen as a likely challenger to Donald Trump in 2020 will probably further enrage the former president, his supporters and the Republican party they dominate. ..............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/09/mitt-romney-joe-biden-trump-book-obama-debenedetti

[treestar]

1. TFG spends a lot of time enraged

One would think he would have died of apoplexy already.

[Scrivener7]

2. This just makes Romney seem like more of a cowardly worm.

[Turbineguy]

3. At least Romney has the imagination

to guess what a post apocalyptical country would be like.

[samsingh]

4. romney is a coward scum. he could have voted against trump bills that would have destroyed him

[jimfields33]

5. They didn't have 50-50. They had 54, his vote would not destroy trump