Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said he did not cast his vote for President Trump in the presidential election, according to CNN on Wednesday.
Romney, who has become as a vocal critic of Trump, already voted in Utah. According to CNN, Romney would not indicate whether he voted for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden or wrote in another candidate.
“I did not vote for President Trump,” Romney told CNN on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
When asked who earned his vote, the Utah Republican senator told CNN “that’s something I’m keeping private at this stage.”
Earlier this week, Romney raised concerns that Trump was damaging GOP support.
“I think our party is in trouble with young people, increasingly with older people, with minorities,” Romney told CNN. “And those young people we were in trouble with five years ago are now voting, and so we’ve got some real work to do.”
Last January, Romney was the only Republican who voted for the abuse of power charge during the Senate’s impeachment trial. The Utah Republican has raised alarms about Trump and his character, which the President has reacted to by hurling insults at him.
However, Romney has maintained his reputation for being a loyal GOP vote, and he supports the rushed confirmation of Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
Romney becomes the latest prominent Republican to come out against Trump ahead of the November presidential election.
Last week, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) wrote in the late President Ronald Reagan on his ballot.
“I know it’s simply symbolic. It’s not going to change the outcome in my state,” Hogan told The Washington Post on Friday. “But I thought it was important to just cast a vote that showed the kind of person I’d like to see in office.”
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) also broke from Trump last week ahead of the presidential election. Baker’s communications director Lizzy Guyton told WCVB that Baker “cannot support Donald Trump for president and is focused on seeing Massachusetts through the pandemic” and that “he’ll leave the election analysis to the pundits.”
A vote for Barrett is voting for Trump.
What say you Romney?
It’s important to note that most of this “Republican revolt” against Trump is coming from people who already said something about him along the way…Romney has mostly gone along, but Hogan and Baker have separated themselves from the Republican crazy show multiple times in the past four years. So, it’s not really news that they are not voting for him and criticizing him now. What is news is the very mild criticism we are hearing from someone like Cornyn…as weak as it was it was a claim of independence.
It’s also news that very few Republicans have taken that step away from Trump to this point, despite the complete meltdown and appearance that he’s going to lose and take the Senate with him. They still are riding along, quietly acquiescing to the bad behavior, and while a few are setting themselves up now for the eventual pivot away from him most are holding back on the off chance that he wins. Basically, they have no moral stance left, it’s a bunch of cowards hoping that Trump can drag them across the finish line so they keep power a little longer…it’s an indication of how bankrupt the Republican party is, and that it really needs to die or be reinvented if it’s going to be relevant going forward.
They have damaged the nation enough that the consequences will be felt for years or decades, but it really may just be that Trump will manage to kill the Republican party as a national power, at least for a little while. Good thing too, because it has become so corrupt that America can’t take much more of it.
Spoiler Alert: He wrote in Mitt Romney
““I think our party is in trouble with young people, increasingly with older people, with minorities,” Romney told CNN. “And those young people we were in trouble with five years ago are now voting, and so we’ve got some real work to do.””
Call me fucking crazy, but here’s some very simple advice: STOP TRYING TO FUCK EVERYONE OVER TO MAINTAIN WHITE CHRISTIAN DOMINION OVER THE COUNTRY’S GOVERNANCE AND CULTURE AND ENRICH JUST A FRACTION OF 1% OF THE FUCKING POPULATION AND MAYBE YOU WOULDN’T HAVE THIS FUCKING PROBLEM!!!
Only a vote for Biden is a vote against Trump. Writing in “Reagan” or not filling in a bubble doesn’t cancel out a Trump vote and is thereby useless.
Also, I would like to suggest that we refrain from talking about a Trump/GOP loss as a foregone conclusion. A lot can happen in the next two weeks and polls don’t always align with reality. Let’s assume that Biden and the Dems are behind and fight like we have our backs to the wall.