Oprah Denies Report On “Unity Ticket” With Romney

The Messenger reports:

Oprah Winfrey is refuting a Mitt Romney claim that she attempted to get the pair on a 2020 ticket “to save the country.”

“In November 2019, Ms. Winfrey called Senator Romney to encourage him to run on an Independent ticket,” a spokesperson said in a statement. “She was not calling to be part of the ticket and was never considering running herself.”

The original claim comes from Romney: A Reckoning, a book by McKay Coppins. It is based on dozens of interviews, as well as journal entries from the once-presidential hopeful.

Read the full article. According to the book, Romney himself made the claim.