Former Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey claims he will not vote for Donald Trump

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 but will not do the same in 2024.

Toomey, who represented the Keystone State from January 2011 to January 2023, said he could not support Trump because of the former president’s efforts to reverse the 2020 election.

“When you lose an election and you try to overturn the results so that you can stay in power, you lose me. You lose me at that point,” Toomey said Tuesday during a segment on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” with hosts Joe Kernan and Andrew Ross Sorkin.

"Neither Trump nor Harris will be my choice for president," says Fmr. Senator Pat Toomey when it comes to the presidential race. pic.twitter.com/RNLsg659gh

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The Lehigh Valley Republican was one of seven in the GOP to vote to convict Trump in 2021 of “incitement of insurrection,” even though the vote to convict ultimately fell 10 votes short of the two-thirds majority, or 67, necessary in the U.S. Senate.

But Toomey also said he could not bring himself to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris either.

“I acknowledge that the outcome is a binary situation, but my choice is not,” Toomey said. “It is an acceptable position for me to say that neither of these candidates can be my choice for president.

“We need Republican control of the Senate and that’s essential,” Toomey continued. “If the other side runs the table, then they will repeal the filibuster and they will be dragged by their left wing, which is clearly in charge now.”