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reFormer Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney did not vote for incumbent Donald Trump in the US elections. The senator, known as an insider critic of Trump’s party, said that to CNN television on Thursday. Romney did not reveal whether he cast his vote for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. “I did not vote for President Trump,” he said simply. Whom his choice fell on, he wanted to “stick with me at this point.”
It’s also possible that Romney voted for one of the desperate niche candidates who, along with Trump and Biden, will run for the White House on November 3 when he cast his early vote. Millions of Americans take advantage of the opportunity to vote at specially open voting centers or by mail before Election Day.
“Atrocious abuse of public trust”
Republicans had nominated Romney as a presidential candidate in 2012, when he lost the election against incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama. The 73-year-old is now considered one of Trump’s sharpest critics in his party’s ranks. In the impeachment process against the president, Romney was the only Republican in the Senate who voted earlier this year to impeach Trump for abuse of power. At the time, he said Trump was guilty of a “terrible abuse of public trust” in the course of the so-called Ukraine affair.
In the 2016 election, Romney said he had written his wife Ann’s name on the ballot and therefore also did not vote for Trump. After his election victory, it sometimes seemed that Trump was considering Romney for the post of foreign minister despite all the disputes. So a now-infamous photo made the rounds showing the two of them at a dinner party in New York. Trump later declared, however, that he only wanted to humiliate Romney. The senior cabinet position eventually went to ExxonMobil boss Rex Tillerson.
