Posted on 03/20/2024 4:15:40 AM PDT by cotton1706
Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) is holding firm on his commitment to not support former President Donald Trump in the November election as he locks up the Republican nomination.
Young split from the former president after he refused to accept the results of the 2020 election, though he voted against impeachment. He pledged not to vote for Trump again in 2023 over his conciliatory tone toward Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine and has remained undeterred by the wave of endorsements from his GOP colleagues.
“I won’t be voting for Biden. I also won’t be voting for Trump,” Young said in an interview 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.”
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From an April 7, 2016 CNN story:
“Rep. Marlin Stutzman is a member of the anti-leadership House Freedom Caucus, a conservative in the mold of Ted Cruz and a three-term Indiana congressman who voted against John Boehner as speaker. Now, he wants a promotion to the Senate – and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his allies want to stop that. Privately, McConnell has made clear to his confidantes that he wants to bolster the candidacy of Stutzman’s chief GOP rival, Rep. Todd Young, and push him over-the-top in the May 3 primary, according to sources familiar with the conversations.”
This is how the Old Crow, with the help of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce et al., have kept conservatives out of the Senate.
The mistake is that we allowed people who were run of the mill republicans to call themselves conservatives far too long.
They alone destroyed the conservative brand. They were nothing but neoCON artists.
people need to learn to distinguish right wing republicanism from MAGA
MAGA works because it is a coalition movement that avoids the extremes on both sides-and the extremes are where the UniParty Media Machine tries to keep the public
Yup. We’ve seen that over and over, especially in VERY Republican states where there was danger of electing a conservative because whatever Republican is nominated will likely get elected. McConnell helped sandbag the conservative in 2012 that got nominated (taking out incumbent liberal Republican Lugar) on the phony rape question. Then Indiana got a Democrat for 6 years and then got Young. So same same as far as McConnell is concerned.
Like Joe Biden or Barak the Messiah.
He’s not principled and he’s not a conservative if he would rather see Biden in office than Tru.p.
He was in that English business prof's class mopping the floor with him.
The business prof had never run a lemonade stand but was looking down his nose at Thornton Mellon. BWAHAAAhahahaha.
A masterpiece.
Trump actually KNOWS what he is talking about and has negotiated anything and everything with real hard-core bastards.
Perfect training for when dealing with hard-core mass-murdering lying CCP and Rats.
Chances are, any modifier before the word conservative is a sign of a weasel.
The “Back to School” analog works perfectly, too.
There, he’s an outsider with common sense and real life business experience, but doesn’t fit in with the elites and commies.
Their ‘principle’ is our peonage.
A vote not cast for Trump is, by default, a vote for Biden.
Sounds like he isn’t a principled conservative or he’d have run.
Young is a total embarrassment to Indiana.
He’s Rodney Dangerfield in Cadyshack.
He should undervote POTUS if he doesn’t like the candidate. I’ve seen his name on my ballot a number of times and undervoted or voted 3rd party.
Everyone should do this. Especially where there are supermajorities. Giving your vote to the party gets you RINO’s.
You buy that hat you get a free bowl of soup, looks great on you though.
BUSHwood.
I did Todd the favor of voting for McCain and Romney (spit). The least Todd could do is return the favor by voting for Trump.
Note to mister Young: A vote for anyone but Trump will have the same result as a vote for Biden. There is no such thing as “neutral” in this situation.
Doesn’t a public refusal to support all Republican nominees mean he can no longer call participate in Republican politics?
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