Oprah Winfrey hit back at a recent claim made by Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) in a new biography, “Romney: A Reckoning” — namely that she had wanted to run for president in 2020.
The 69-year-old talk show host said through a spokesperson that she “never considered running” for the top office after Romney told the author of the bio that he got a call from the actress (who’s a Democrat) suggesting that they should run together “to save the country,” the Hollywood Reporter reported.
“In November 2019, Ms. Winfrey called Senator Romney to encourage him to run on an Independent ticket,” the spokesperson told the outlet. “She was not calling to be part of the ticket and was never considering running herself.”
[This claim from Romney makes no sense at all. If she wanted to run for President, she would have run as a Democrat, and she would have easily won the nomination — especially after Kamala Harris crapped out. Why would she have spent her money running as an independent rather than as a major-party nominee? — Ed]
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