Former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina revealed in a new interview that she will likely vote for former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, opting to cast her ballot for the presumptive Democratic nominee over her 2016 GOP primary opponent and the incumbent president.
“I’ve been very clear that I can’t support Donald Trump. And, you know, elections are binary choices,” Fiorina told The Atlantic on an episode of “The Ticket” podcast released Thursday.
Pressed on whether she would indeed vote for Biden, Fiorina noted that the general election is “not till November,” but acknowledged that, “if faced with a binary choice on a ballot, yes,” she would.
Fiorina, who served as CEO of Hewlett-Packard before launching failed bids for the Senate in California in 2010 and the White House in 2016, previously divulged during a podcast interview with The Bulwark in May that she would not vote for Trump.
Fiorina had been open to supporting the president’s reelection effort as recently as December 2019, when she argued that it was “vital” Trump be impeached by the House of Representatives but refused to rule out voting for him in 2020.
Although Fiorina voted for Trump in 2016, the two candidates feuded bitterly in that year’s Republican nominating contest, with Trump mocking Fiorina’s physical appearance and Fiorina dismissing Trump as the “Kim Kardashian of politics.”
After Fiorina dropped out of the primary in February 2016, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz announced two months later that he would select her as his running mate should he triumph in the race for the Republican nomination.
He did not, instead withdrawing from the primary less than a week after tapping Fiorina as his prospective vice presidential nominee and finishing as the runner-up to Trump.
In July 2016, Cruz was booed off the floor of the Republican National Convention for urging GOP voters to “vote your conscience,” and has since become a vocal defender of the president in Congress.