GOP Senator Refuses to Vote For Trump in 2024, Says Party Needs a Leader ‘Principled Conservatives Can Actually Believe In’

Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) made absolutely clear this week that he will still not be voting for President Donald Trump, despite the former president having secured enough delegates to be his party’s presidential nominee.

“I won’t be voting for Biden. I also won’t be voting for Trump,” Young told a local Indiana reporter on Monday.

“So, does that mean I leave it blank? Does that mean I identify another conservative who’s almost certain not to be the next president of the United States and write them in? I haven’t decided that, and I think that’s a largely unimportant point. I don’t know who goes in that line, if anyone,” Young added.

Young, a conservative member of the GOP, voted against impeaching Trump in 2020 after the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, but has publicly denounced Trump’s debunked election fraud claims and anti-Ukraine posturing throughout the brutal Russian invasion. Young said earlier in the month that he would not support Trump in 2024 because of his position on Ukraine.

Young noted that his refusal to support either candidate could “reward one person at the expense of the other.”

“My response is, at some point, principled conservatives need to incentivize our party, the Republican Party, to nominate somebody that principled conservatives can actually believe in. Stated differently, I’m tired of having my vote taken for granted. I think a lot of Hoosiers are,” Young added.