Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) won’t say if he will vote for President Trump in November, but signaled Monday he would announce his decision later in the year.
“I’m not going to be describing who I’ll be voting for. I don’t imagine my plan is to stay quiet on that,” he told reporters.
Romney made his comment after Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said last week she is “struggling” over her decision on whom to support for president.
Asked last week if she could support Trump for reelection, Murkowski said: “I am struggling with it. I have struggled with it for a long time.”
Romney, who was the only Republican senator to vote in February to convict Trump on an article of impeachment alleging abuse of power, is not expected to support a second term for Trump.
He indicated in an interview with The Atlantic magazine earlier this year that he would not back Trump.
“Though he said he won’t make an endorsement in this year’s presidential election, Romney was clear that he will not cast a ballot for Trump,” McKay Coppins wrote in the magazine in early February.
Romney said at the time that “under no circumstances” would he vote for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) or Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), two of the most liberal candidates in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.
Romney told Utah media outlets that he voted for his wife in 2016 by writing in her name on the ballot.
"I wrote in the name of a person who I admire deeply, who I think would be an excellent president," Romney said during his 2018 Senate race.
He said he knew his vote "wasn't going to go anywhere, but nonetheless felt that I was putting in a very solid name."
At least 15 Republican senators indicated they didn’t vote for Trump in the 2016 general election. At least nine of them are still in the Senate.