Republican senator Mitt Romney, now relieved of the reelection stressandanxieties that when required him to play good with members of his own celebration, went on a score-settling tear in an upcoming bio by McKay Coppins. Among the coworkers he discovers most grating or ethically hollow: Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and J.D. Vance, according to an excerpt from Coppins’s upcoming book, Romney: A Reckoning. The unique, released Wednesday by The Atlantic, was timed to correspond with Romney, a one-term Republican senator from Utah, revealing that he will not lookfor reelection next year.
In the book, Romney particularly rips freshman Vance for structure a nationwide brandname on slamming Donald Trump just to lateron grovel for the previous president’s recommendation when he ran for Senate last cycle. “I puton’t understand that I can disrespect somebody more than J.D. Vance,” Romney informed Coppins. Vance’s workplace did not respond to a demand for remark.
As for Hawley and Cruz, Romney implicated them of sneaky computations in their assistance of Trump’s 2020 election lies and—following the Capitol riot—said he would mostlikely neverever work with Hawley. “They understand muchbetter!” the outbound senator argued. “Josh Hawley is one of the mostintelligent individuals in the Senate, if not the mostintelligent, and Ted Cruz might offer him a run for his cash.” He included that the 2 senators “put politics above the interests of liberal democracy and the Constitution.”
In reaction, Darin Miller, Cruz’s interactions director, commented in a post on X, “out of context this is a quite excellent quote”—the “good” part being Romney’s description of Cruz as amongst the “smartest” in the Senate. Miller di