Asa Hutchinson, Fierce Never Trumper In The GOP Primary, Won’t Be Voting For Biden

Asa Hutchinson, the former governor of Arkansas and one of Donald Trump’s sharpest critics on the GOP presidential debate stage, said he won’t be voting for President Joe Biden in November.

And while the likely rematch of the 2020 election has left many voters unenthusiastic about the prospect of either winning, Hutchinson said he thought American democracy would survive either way.

“I’m not going to vote for Biden,” Hutchinson told HuffPost Wednesday as he was leaving the U.S. Capitol after a visit, reiterating a stance first disclosed in March.

Hutchinson, along with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, was one of former President Donald Trump’s most vocal critics during the GOP presidential primary season. Early on, Hutchinson, a former federal prosecutor, said Trump should drop out because of the array of federal and state charges against him.

Other prominent Republicans have recently said they won’t vote for Trump but also won’t vote for Biden, who will be the only other major party nominee on the ballot.

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that he wouldn’t be voting for Trump but would instead write in his pick, which he said he also did in 2020.

Christie, also a former federal prosecutor, said he, too, would not vote for Trump but also could not bring himself to vote for Biden, describing him as “past the sell-by date. ”

Christie said, “If the American people are stupid enough to nominate these two guys, doesn’t mean I have to be stupid, too.”

Not every anti-Trump Republican has picked that route, though. Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan said Monday he would vote for Biden instead of “a criminal defendant without a moral compass.”

While critics of the no-Trump-no-Biden school say the narrow