Mitt Romney considered 'unity ticket' with 'scary' Ted Cruz in bid to stop Trump: new book

While considering a third presidential bid in 2016, Mitt Romney sought to form a unity ticket with Ted Cruz in what he called a "desperate" attempt to stop Donald Trump, according to a biography.

“Romney was willing to wage a quixotic and humiliating presidential bid if that’s what it took,” McKay Coppins wrote in Romney: A Reckoning, of which an excerpt was shared by The Guardian Wednesday.

“He might even be able to swallow sharing a ticket with Cruz, a man he’d described as ‘scary’ and ‘a demagogue’ in his journal. But Romney didn’t think the gambit would actually succeed in taking down Trump. The problem was that no one else in the party seemed to know what to do about Trump, either," Coppins wrote.

Coppins' book is set to hit shelves this coming Tuesday. In it, he alleges Romney was approached five days before the New Hampshire primary by friend and adviser, Robert O’Brien, and former Missouri Senator Jim Talent.

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“The party was in crisis,” Coppins wrote. “An interloping frontrunner was on the verge of hijacking the GOP, and the rest of the field had shown they couldn’t beat him. If no one else stepped up by 1 March, they argued, Romney should enter the race and tap Cruz as his running mate to unite Republican opposition to Trump."

The book also details Trump bragging about his wife, Melania.

Read the full article over at The Guardian.