Donald Trump may have defeated his primary challengers and secured enough delegates to be the Republican Party’s presidential nominee this year, but a striking number of his former aides publicly said they would rather not see his name on the ballot in November.
Trump is running for president for a third time while facing 88 charges across four criminal cases. Two of those cases — a federal case in Washington and a state-level case in Georgia — center on Trump and his allies’ efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Joe Biden from taking office. Trump, who has denied wrongdoing in each case, has tried to push the start of his criminal trials back until after November’s election.
Several of Trump’s former top advisers and allies have refused to endorse their former boss’s campaign, including former vice president Mike Pence, former attorney general William P. Barr and former White House chief of staff John Kelly.
Other former members of Trump’s inner circle, including former defense secretary Mark T. Esper, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and former White House counsel Ty Cobb, went further in their criticism of Trump by saying they’re not going to vote for him in November — and that they’re open to casting a ballot for President Biden instead.
Trump’s campaign said in a statement Monday evening that “the majority of the people who served in President Trump’s cabinet and in his administration … have overwhelmingly endorsed his candidacy to beat” Biden in 2024.
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