I’m ‘absolutely not’ voting for Trump, will vote for Biden – Melinda French Gates

Melinda French Gates declared that she will vote for President Biden in November against Former President Trump, citing the latter’s prior statements regarding women’s and reproductive rights.

French Gates said, “More than likely, yes,” to a question from co-host Gayle King of “CBS Mornings” regarding whether or not she would support or endorse a certain candidate.

When asked who that contender “might be,” philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates’ ex-wife French Gates responded, “Well, I don’t think it would be any surprise.”

“I think, first of all, I think it’s really important to say that I have voted in some elections Republican and some elections Democratic,” French Gates said. “But in this election, I cannot vote for a man who rolls back women’s reproductive rights and says the heinous things that he says about women. So, I absolutely am not voting for Trump, and I will vote for Biden.”

She told King it is up to women to show up to the polls in November as they did during the mid-terms

“It is going to come down in this election; it will come down to the women turning out in the battleground states. They…women turned out in the mid-term elections and said, ‘This is enough.’ And we’ve got to do it again,” French Gates said.

French Gates is a staunch reproductive rights advocate and committed $1 billion to women’s causes last month.

She celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision last week that upheld access to the abortion medication mifepristone, while noting the greater fight for reproductive rights remains ongoing.

“Today’s Supreme Court decision is welcome news, but the fight for reproductive rights is far from over,” she wrote on the social media platform X. “Someone else will file a lawsuit. Another state will pass legislation restricting women’s options.”

Reproductive rights have remained a top political topic in the two years since the conservative Supreme Court majority ended Roe v. Wade. Trump has taken credit for the high court decision through the appointment of three conservative justices to the bench.

The Biden campaign has repeatedly linked Trump to the state-level abortion bans that have been enacted since the Supreme Court ruling and has warned of further restrictions on the procedure if Trump is reelected in November.

French Gates’s full interview with “CBS Mornings” will air on Tuesday.