Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said Wednesday he would “absolutely not” vote for former President Trump over President Biden in November, pointing to Trump’s foreign policy views and his character.
“No. No, no, absolutely not,” Romney told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source” when asked whether he would support Trump over Biden.
Romney explained there are “two factors” — policy and character — he is using to decide “who I want to have as the leader of my country and the person who is the example of the president for my kids and my grandkids.” He said are both vital but that character is most important.
I doubt that. Democratic voters aren’t going to choose to not vote for Biden based on anything this tool says. Independent voters, on the other hand, might decide to vote for Biden if a moderate like Romney supports him.
The bigger issue is that if Romney endorsed Biden the magats would go after him, including death threats or worse.
He already gets death threats and was apparently a target of Jan-6ers.
FTFY.
The mythical moderates (who turned out so strongly for Romney in 2012 /s) have gotten plenty of reasons to vote for Biden already, and Democratic voters have gotten tons of reasons not to. Putting even more work into the right side of the coalition while pissing all over progressives yet again could very well break the whole thing apart.
Of course, if Romney did make an endorsement and Biden turned around and said “Voters shouldn’t allow anything this tool says to influence them, he thinks about 47% of you don’t matter at all” that would reverse the impact of this, but I’m really confidential that Biden doesn’t have the moral clarity to take that kind of stand since he loves to talk about how he has friends in the Republican party and they’re actually good people and other politically convenient lies like that.