{"id":7118,"date":"2024-03-08T22:04:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T22:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/indiana-gop-sen-todd-young-renews-his-pledge-not-to-support-trump-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T22:04:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T22:04:44","slug":"indiana-gop-sen-todd-young-renews-his-pledge-not-to-support-trump-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/indiana-gop-sen-todd-young-renews-his-pledge-not-to-support-trump-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana GOP Sen. Todd Young renews his pledge not to support Trump in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Republican Sen. Todd Young told the media on Friday, days after former President Trump\u2019s commanding Super Tuesday performance, that he will not be endorsing the former president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing&#8217;s changed from my standpoint,&#8221; Young told CNN after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wevv.com\/news\/politics\/senator-todd-young-says-he-will-not-support-trump-in-2024\/article_f994f444-dc98-11ee-b965-1be759f04c03.html\">WWEV 44 News reported<\/a> that Young will not support Trump due to the former president\u2019s position and comments on Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I trust the people I represent to make their own decisions on who they\u2019re going to vote for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The outlet reported that Young has not decided who he will support in November.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-takes-over-republican-party-installing-key-ally-daughter-in-law-lead-rnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUMP SET TO TAKE OVER REPUBLICAN PARTY BY INSTALLING KEY ALLY, DAUGHTER-IN-LAW TO LEAD RNC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Young\u2019s position reiterates comments he has made in the past, including nine months ago when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xqbfqbqZPeA\">he said<\/a> he doesn\u2019t &#8220;intend to support him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where do I begin?&#8221; Young said when asked what the reasons for not supporting Trump are.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think President Trump\u2019s judgment is wrong in this case,&#8221; Young <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mkraju\/status\/1656686985904369668?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously said,<\/a> referring to Trump declining to call Putin a &#8220;war criminal&#8221; in 2023. &#8220;Putin and his government have been engaged in war crimes. . . . That\u2019s why I don\u2019t intend to support him for the Republican nomination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-posts-91m-bond-appeals-83m-e-jean-carroll-judgment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUMP POSTS $91M BOND, APPEALS $83M E JEAN CARROLL JUDGMENT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Young took office in 2017 and was re-elected to the Senate in 2022, beating his Democratic challenger Thomas McDermott Jr. by about 20 points.<\/p>\n<p>Young was one of only four GOP senators Trump did not endorse for re-election that year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/02\/todd-young-indiana-senate-trump-00029217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Politico.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Young is the third sitting Republican senator to decline to support Trump, along with Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Utah Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/mitt-romney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mitt Romney.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Republican Sen. Todd Young told the media on Friday, days after former President Trump\u2019s commanding Super Tuesday performance, that he will not be endorsing the former president. &#8220;Nothing&#8217;s changed from my standpoint,&#8221; Young told CNN after WWEV 44 News reported that Young will not support Trump due to the former president\u2019s position and comments &#8230; <a title=\"Indiana GOP Sen. Todd Young renews his pledge not to support Trump in 2024\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/indiana-gop-sen-todd-young-renews-his-pledge-not-to-support-trump-in-2024\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Indiana GOP Sen. Todd Young renews his pledge not to support Trump in 2024\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}