People I have heard saying they are not voting for Trump are:
George W. Bush
John Bolton
I know there are many others. George Bush, Sr. was not going to and neither was Barbara Bush or John McCain.
Who else has said they plant to not vote for him this time?
George Will. “Trump must be removed. So must his congressional enablers.”
There was another thread in which we listed prominent Republicans (mostly politicians or op-ed journalists like George Will) who have broken with Trump. I suppose that thread is still around here somewhere. And I suppose all those people aren’t voting for Trump.
ETA: Here it is.
Conservative and right wing journalists that have not drunk the Trump Flavor-Aid.
Then will they vote Biden? 3rd Party? Not vote?
Some are voting Biden. Some are voting third party. Some are going to vote Republican down the ticket and simply avoid the vote for President(that is what W. Bush did in 2016).
I’m still waiting for some prominent Republicans who have denounced Trump say they back Biden. I am really thinking of David Frum and David Brooks, but I would include Romney who says he voted for his wife in 2016 and might do so again.
I’ll bet these guys count. (Reuters)
Dozens of Republican former U.S. national security officials are forming a group that will back Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, people familiar with the effort said, in a further sign that President Donald Trump has alienated some members of his own party.
The article goes on to say that dozens more are planning to join this group and actively campaign for Biden.
Good stuff.
Carly Fiorina endorsed Biden
John Bolton is going to vote for a third party conservative.
Colin Powell is voting Biden.
and like clockwork , Trump bashes Fiorina. He’s nothing if not predictable.
Lindsey Graham? Oh - you mean NOW!
It is funny to see Republicans who slammed Trump in 2015/2016 bowing and scraping to him now.
David Brooks finally endorsed Biden in an op-ed in the Times. Is David Frum next?
I saw this today(John Cleese linked to it). I’m clueless. Is he a conservative?
Definitely. House conservative for the Times, but still very conservative. Protegé of Wm. Buckley which may mean that he agrees that McCarthy was a great misunderstood patriot. I think he was involved with the National Review at one point. But he has always been a never-Trumper and has maintained that without saying vote Democratic until today.
P J o’Rourke is known to be anti-trump:
Better the devil you know than the Lord of the Flies on his own 757. Flying to and fro in the earth, with gold-plated seatbelt buckles, talking nativist, isolationist, mercantilist, bigoted, rude, and vulgar crap.
The electorate is possessed by a demon… Donald Trump is a flying monkey.
Except what the flying monkeys have to say, “ oreoreoreo, ” makes more sense than Trump’s policy statements. But Trump Earth™ is flat. We’ll sail over the edge. Here be monsters.
Better the scurrying of mousey progressivism gnawing at the fabric of society in the White House than a rat sitting on the Oval Office desk.
Better to root up the garden of free enterprise with the Democratic pigs than run off a protectionist cliff with the Gadarene swine Republicans.
Ever since Athens in the 5th century B.C. the great enemy of democracy has been the demagogue. But— O tempora! O mores! —now we’ve got a firebrand soap box orator who cannot so much as put a coherent sentence together. He likes to “talk bigly.”
There’s these guys, which includes Scaramucci (sp?):
I think this is supposed to be more rank-and-file but there’s also this:
I can’t decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing. On balance, probably a good thing. But it still sort of creeps me out.
I do know it’s unlikely this would have happened if anyone other than Biden had won the nomination. He does have a reputation for having worked across the aisle throughout his political career.
I don’t think he would be considered a Republican, but Mark Cuban was just on The View and stated he will vote for Biden.
Of course, Cuban also said he would vote for Republicans in the down-ballot races. When asked why, he gave an evasive answer regarding the Democrats methods for addressing the economic issues created by the pandemic. He criticized them for using “traditional” methods of addressing these problems (I’m interpreting this as being unemployment insurance/welfare, etc.). He also never explicated what the Republicans are doing that is unique or outside the box thinking in regards to the problems. The real answer, naturally, is that the Republicans are pumping the stock market full of cash from the Fed, which helps people like Cuban.