Conservative columnist George Will says he is voting for Biden

Conservative Washington Post columnist George Will confirmed Tuesday that he would vote for the former vice president. Joe BidenJoe BidenBiden Vows To Fight Foreign Interference Efforts If Elected On The Money: Congress Will Face Coronavirus Relief Legislation | Unemployment Claims Raise Bets in Aid Battle COVID-19 | S&P 500 erases 2020 losses Biden pledges to repeal Trump travel ban initially in most Muslim countries MORE, your first vote for a Democrat for President.

In an interview with Susan Page, head of the Washington Today office for the Aspen Institute, Will went beyond his 2016 non-approval of President TrumpDonald John TrumpDHS expands staff authority to collect information on people who threaten monuments: Republican report points to Trump’s payroll tax cut on Republican coronavirus bill, for now Trump threatens to duplicate Portland in other major cities PLUS and said he would vote for Biden, the supposed Democratic candidate. Will warned against Trump’s nomination in 2016, but failed to endorse his Democratic opponent, Hillary clintonHillary Diane Rodham Clinton Biden turns left as Trump turns right Clintons, Biden will join the premiere of MSNBC’s Joy Reid show on Monday The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Facebook – Trump, Republican senators disagree with upcoming bill stimulus MORE, at the time.

“Who do you plan to vote for in November?” Page asked the columnist through Zoom.

“Biden,” Will replied immediately.

“Have you voted for a Democrat before?” She continued.

“Never,” Will said, adding, “I have nothing against Democrats. But I never had a chance to vote for one.”

While the Washington Post columnist has never backed a Democrat for the presidential job, his decision to support Biden is not surprising; In 2018, Will spoke in favor of voters expelling Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate, calling for the number of elected Republican Party officials to be “substantially reduced.”

“The principle: Republican groups in Congress should be substantially reduced. Substantially, their remnants, reduced to minorities, will be stripped of Article I powers of the Constitution that have been too invertebrate to use against the current bearer of the powers of the Article II “. Will wrote for the Post in June 2018: “They will have free time to wonder why they worked so hard to become members of a legislature whose unexercised muscles have been atrophied by people like them.”

“The Republican-controlled Congress, which waited for Trump to unilaterally undo the border madness they could have avoided by actually legislating, is an announcement of the little importance of Republican control,” he added at the time.

Will has opposed Trump since the beginning of the latter’s political career and in 2015 warned that Trump securing the Republican nomination could spell doom for the Republican Party.

“One hundred and four years of history are at stake. If Trump is the Republican candidate in 2016, there could be no conservative party in 2020 either,” he said at the time.