An often guarded Sen. Mitt Romney let loose and spilled the beans on his Senate GOP peers.
, author McKay Coppins describes the 2012 Republican presidential nominee as someone “fascinated by the strange social ecosystem that governed the Senate,” going so far as to hang out in the chamber’s gym “studying his colleagues like he was an anthropologist, jotting down his observations in his journal.”
“I don’t know that I can disrespect someone more than J. D. Vance,” Romney told Coppins, recounting that he had crossed paths with the Ohio Republican years earlier and been impressed by his best-selling book “Hillbilly Elegy” and its thoughtful musings about the GOP’s future without falling under the spell of the future 45th president.Getty Images
Romney expected Mitch McConnell to be a cold-calculating strategist, but found him to be more of a manager of egos.“Josh Hawley is one of the smartest people in the Senate, if not the smartest, and Ted Cruz [R-Texas] could give him a run for his money,” Romney told Coppins, adding: “They know better” than to believe Trump’s claim that massive fraud cost him a second term.
“You’re lucky,” McConnell told Romney at one point. “You can say the things that we all think. You’re in a position to say things about him that we all agree with but can’t say.”
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