GOP governor casts blank vote in 2020 presidential election
Charlie Baker, the GOP governor of the US state of Massachusetts, says he has cast a bank ballot at the 2020 presidential election.
“I blanked it,” Baker told reporters Tuesday, refusing to endorse his party’s nominee, President Donald Trump, for reelection.
Baker in September blasted the Republican nominee’s refusal to acknowledge a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the race.
“It is appalling and outrageous that anyone would suggest for a minute that if they lose an election they’re not going to leave — period,” Baker said then. “I know that I speak, I am sure, for the vast majority of elected officials in the United States of America when I say that.”
The president later attacked his defense of the mail-in ballots, which Trump considers a part of the United States’ “rigged” electoral process.“
“RINO [Republican in name only] Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts is unsuccessfully trying to defend Mail In Ballots, when there is fraud being found all over the place," Trump tweeted. "Just look at some of the recent races, or the Trump Ballots in Pennsylvania that were thrown into the garbage. Wrong Charlie!”
Baker is on the unprecedented list of GOP members refusing to back the Republican nominee for a second term.
“You’re going to be stuck with me for at least the next two years, anyway,” said the Massachusetts governor last month. “It’s flattering to be considered, but I like the job I have.”
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