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‘You have to run’: Romney urged Biden to take down Trump, book says
The Guardian ^ | September 9, 2022 | Martin Pengelly

Posted on 09/09/2022 7:26:58 AM PDT by Jim Noble

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...

The Biden-Romney call is described in The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama, a book by Gabriel Debenedetti that will be published next week. The Guardian obtained a copy...

In a note on sourcing, Debenedetti says his book is “primarily the product of hundreds of interviews” with “colleagues, aides, rivals, confidants, allies and eyewitnesses from every stage” of Obama and Biden’s careers since 2003...

He also says: “When someone’s words are rendered in italics, that indicates an approximation based on the memories of sources who did not recall exact wordings...”

Romney’s opposition to Trump is long established, if not entirely consistent...

In 2016, the former Massachusetts governor spoke out against Trump, decrying his behaviour on the campaign trail and calling him a “phony” and a “fraud”. After the election, he said he did not vote for the Republican nominee, writing in his wife’s name instead...

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; US: Michigan; US: Utah
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To: Skywise

Jeb! would get more votes.


21 posted on 09/09/2022 7:56:14 AM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's 'WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE' speech is history's Jimmah Carter's BIG RABBIT blunder..)
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To: Jim Noble

What kind of people want a pompous, self-righteous Senator that hides behind the name Pierre Delecto


22 posted on 09/09/2022 7:57:03 AM PDT by abbastanza ( )
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To: Jim Noble

What a POS Romney is. I am ashamed to say I actually voted for him although the alternative was demonstrably worse.


23 posted on 09/09/2022 8:01:35 AM PDT by RichT398
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To: All

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The Queen wasn’t announced dead yet, and Mitch McConnell had made a statement on her life.

When the Republicans don’t rebut Barr and Strzok and Cheney - they want Trump attacked. They want the allegations to stand.

Common sense.


24 posted on 09/09/2022 8:02:57 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: Jim Noble

So this vile imbecile loses in 2012 to Obama and BIDEN(!) and then asks him to run against the sitting Rep. President as he gives his Utah Rep. Senator victory speech!!?? What a sick, evil, loser with zero integrity.


25 posted on 09/09/2022 8:07:06 AM PDT by vivenne (")
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To: RichT398

It seems now that they are interchangeable.


26 posted on 09/09/2022 8:08:17 AM PDT by vivenne (")
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To: Zathras

What is the Mormon agenda?


27 posted on 09/09/2022 8:10:21 AM PDT by vivenne (")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Bush said similar to Biden/Cummings

These traitors are beyond shameful I will look forward to their ultimate day of reckoning


28 posted on 09/09/2022 8:11:06 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ( Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law the left understands)
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29 posted on 09/09/2022 8:12:07 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: Skywise

You needed proof? They are all the same which is why I don’t much care I’d the Repukes take the Senate. I just want thr Senators to be voted out at every chance and rebuild it


30 posted on 09/09/2022 8:17:07 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: Jim Noble

No doubt in my mind. Ronmey is a snake.


31 posted on 09/09/2022 8:18:42 AM PDT by Parley Baer (WI)
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To: Jim Noble

What a TRAITOR this guy turned out to be.

He begged President Donald J Trump for his endorsement then STABBED HIM IN THE BACK.

UTAH VOTE HIM OUT.


32 posted on 09/09/2022 8:35:44 AM PDT by Pearfect
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To: Jim Noble

This scumbag will run again in 2024.

He and Liz Cheney.

They believe they have to save the world from Trump.


33 posted on 09/09/2022 9:12:26 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Jim Noble

Dear Mormons.....WAKE THE HELL UP!!


34 posted on 09/09/2022 9:15:59 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the sgod of Convenience.)
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To: Jim Noble

Romney Christy one in the same

twins separated at birth

I despise them both


35 posted on 09/09/2022 9:22:45 AM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: Jim Noble

Totally in keeping with the backstabber Romney. Combine a scummy lawyer, a sleazy car dealer, an underhanded contractor, and you have someone more honorable than Romney.


36 posted on 09/09/2022 9:55:41 AM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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To: Mariner

Term limits!


37 posted on 09/09/2022 10:29:55 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Jim Noble

Mitt is thinking he will get the VP spot on Biden’s ticket. Why? Because they need someone handsome to offset the hansom Gavin Nusome challenge. All goons think this way.


38 posted on 09/09/2022 10:49:47 AM PDT by BEJ
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To: Jim Noble

It’s more than obvious that the Romney Family is as corrupt and evil as is the Biden Family. What are you going to do it Utah?


39 posted on 09/09/2022 11:12:11 AM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! Fuhrer Biden is supported by MSM & DC.)
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To: Jim Noble

Let’s not forget that Trump endorsed that liberal Morman POS.


40 posted on 09/09/2022 11:19:46 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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