Utah’s Republican Governor Declares He Will Not Support Trump in Election – One America News Network
OAN Staff James Meyers
1:40 PM – Thursday, July 11, 2024
Utah Governor Spencer Cox has maintained that he will not be voting for 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump this year.
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Cox (R-UT.) noted that he did not vote for the former GOP president in the 2016 and 2020 election cycles, and he has no intention of doing so this year either. While on CNN‘s program The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Cox said that he plans to simply “write somebody in” on Election Day.
“I’m not going to vote for either presidential candidate this year. I’ll write somebody in, as I’ve done in the past,” Cox said on Wednesday after being asked if he would support Trump.
“I do want Donald Trump to succeed. I want my party to win. We desperately need the right people in the right positions. I’m very anxious about who he picks as vice president,” Cox continued, noting Gov. Doug Burgum (R-N.D.), one of Trump’s possible vice presidential picks, is an “incredible leader.”
Cox has previously been labeled a “RINO” (Republican In Name Only), and he is known for his anti-Trump stance since 2016. The Utah governor also said that he has not voted for a single Republican nominee running since Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT.).
Republican in Name Only is a disparaging term used in American politics to characterize Republicans who are thought to be either ideologically different from the majority of their party or not sufficiently devoted to the party.
“I’ve said before I haven’t voted for the top of the ticket since 2012. I’ve certainly had my concerns. One of those is what happened on Jan. 6. I’m hopeful. I want my party to win [but] they chose a candidate this time around that was not my first choice, which wasn’t my choice last time either, but the party’s spoken,” Cox said.
Cox also mentioned the Republicans who fought against the 2020 election results being sent to the Republican National Convention (RNC). The next RNC event is next week.
“Obviously, it’s not the best look, Kaitlan, but I’m very hopeful that at the national convention, the Republicans will have an opportunity to turn the page on that stuff and present a hopeful message to the country. I think that the country is desperate for some normalcy right now, and neither party has been giving them that normalcy,” Cox added.
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