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

Biography says Romney considered 2016 pairing with senator - who he saw as a demagogue' - to block Trump 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.