Oprah Winfrey suggested she run for the White House in 2020 with Mitt Romney on a ‘unity ticket’ to stop Trump getting elected, new book claims

Oprah Winfrey proposed teaming up with Sen. Mitt Romney during a 2020 White House campaign in an effort to defeat Donald Trump, according to an upcoming book.

There was widespread speculation that the talk show host had an edge before the election, with analysts saying her popularity and wealth would have made her a formidable candidate.

Now it appears that Winfrey, a Democrat, made a plea to the Republican senator, who lost to Barack Obama in the 2012 election, that together they want to “save the country.”

Romney revealed the plan to author McKay Coppins and is included in his new book “Romney: A Reckoning,” due out next Tuesday.

The senator apparently dismissed the idea for fear it would help rather than hinder Trump.

Oprah Winfrey suggested teaming up with Senator Mitt Romney during a 2020 White House campaign in an effort to defeat Donald Trump, according to an upcoming book

Winfrey thought their ticket would appeal to both Republicans and Democrats and would offer the best chance to prevent Donald Trump from being re-elected in 2020.

The details were reported Monday by Axios, citing a source familiar with the manuscript.

It is the clearest indication yet of Winfrey’s political ambitions.

Shortly after Trump was elected, she admitted that she was thinking about a political career.

Fellow billionaire David Rubenstein pointed out in an interview that it was now clear that a lack of political experience need not be an obstacle to winning elections.

“That’s what I thought too,” she responded. ‘I thought, ‘Oh dear, I don’t have the experience, I don’t know enough.

‘And now I’m thinking, “Oh! Oh.”‘

The speculation reached a fever pitch in early 2018 after she gave a speech at the Golden Globes Awards at the height of the #MeToo movement.

“I want all the girls watching here now to know that there is a new day on the horizon,” she said as she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award.

“And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of wonderful women, many of whom are here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men, who are fighting hard to ensure that they become the leaders who will make us to the time when no one ever has to say ‘Me too’ again.’

‘Romney: A Reckoning’ will be released on October 24 from Scribner

After the speech, her longtime partner Stedman Graham said a run was possible.

“It’s up to the people,” Stedman Graham told the Los Angeles Times. “She would absolutely do it.”

Romney, 76, will step down from the Senate at the end of next year.

In recent years, he has been one of the loudest anti-Trump voices in the Republican Party, frequently clashing with the former president.

Last week, he implored Republican donors to rally behind a single Trump rival in the nomination race.

Speaking behind closed doors at the two-day forum in Park City, Utah, Romney said he would be happy if either of them won the nomination, according to The Washington Post.

“I think our party has multiple personality disorder, and I think the Democratic Party does too,” the 2012 Republican presidential candidate said Tuesday.

‘I think we’re schizophrenic. We don’t know what we are and what we stand for within our party.’