'Petty' Mitt Romney Trashes Republican Colleagues — Calls Ted Cruz 'Frightening' and Says Ron DeSantis Has 'No Warmth At All'
Mitt Romney trashed his Republican colleagues in a bombshell new biography.
Oct. 23 2023, Published 12:30 p.m. ET
Mitt Romney trashed his Republican colleagues in a bombshell new biography about the GOP senator, RadarOnline.com can report.
In a striking development to come just days after Romney, 76, announced that he would not seek re-election in 2024, passages from the Utah politician’s upcoming biography were shared with the media.
Romney once said that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had “no warmth at all."
The upcoming biography, titled Romney: A Reckoning and written by reporter McKay Coppins, touched upon the retiring Utah senator’s thoughts about his fellow GOP colleagues.
According to the book, Romney trashed Ron DeSantis, Ted Cruz, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, and many more Republican politicians for “rallying around Donald Trump” in a way that the 2012 GOP presidential candidate found “pretty dispiriting.”
Coppins noted how Romney once said that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had “no warmth at all,” while he reportedly called Texas Senator Ted Cruz “frightening, scary and a demagogue.”
The Utah senator allegedly called Newt Gingrich “smug” and “smarmy,” while Mike Huckabee was described as a “huckster, a caricature of a for-profit teacher, and a preacher.”
Romney reportedly called Texas Senator Ted Cruz “frightening, scary and a demagogue.”
Meanwhile, Romney reportedly dubbed former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal a “twit” and described former Senator Rick Santorum as “sanctimonious, severe and strange.”
“Republicans must realize that we have to have someone who can complete a sentence,” he said of former Texas Governor Rick Perry.
“Lack of thoughtfulness, lack of attentiveness, ego,” Romney added regarding former Ohio Governor John Kasich. “No wonder he and Chris Christie spark.”
According to Coppins, Romney derided his GOP colleagues in his private journals and during interviews he gave to the Romney: A Reckoning writer over the course of two years.
"Seeing old friends and allies kind of rally around Donald Trump in a way that he finds pretty dispiriting.”
Coppins acknowledged that the retiring Utah senator might look “petty” or “consumed with old resentments” because of the various quotes, but the writer also emphasized that Romney was “enormously disappointed in the leaders of his party.”
“Well, you know, some of those quotes are from his journals, which he gave me early on in the process of writing the book,” Coppins explained to Mika Brzezinksi on Morning Joe on Monday morning. “But a lot of those comments are from interviews he gave me over the two years that we spent together.”
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“And I mean, look, you know, as those quotes have kind of gotten out over the past week, some people have said, well, Romney looks petty or he’s consumed with these old resentments, and I’ll let people make that judgment for themselves,” he continued. “I think that what’s really at play here is that Romney is enormously disappointed in the leaders of his party.”
“I think that at the root of them is a profound frustration with what his party has become,” Coppins concluded. “And seeing old friends and allies kind of rally around Donald Trump in a way that he finds pretty dispiriting.”
Senator Romney will not seek re-election next year.
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As RadarOnline.com reported, Romney announced last month that he will not seek re-election next year.
The Utah senator cited his age as one of the main reasons for his retirement, and he emphasized that "while [he’s] not running for reelection, [he’s] not retiring from the fight.”
“I have spent my last 25 years in public service of one kind or another,” Romney announced on September 13. “At the end of another term, I’d be in my mid-eighties.”
“Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders,” he added. “They’re the ones that need to make the decisions that will shape the world they will be living in.”
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