# Phil Scott Republican Governor of Vermont since January 2017 — and the most prominent **anti-Trump Republican governor** in the country. Scott repeatedly wins landslide re-election in one of the most Democratic states in the nation by running as a fiscally moderate, socially liberal Republican, an electoral profile that has become nearly extinct elsewhere in his party. Scott has publicly stated he did not vote for [[Donald Trump]] in 2016, 2020, or 2024 (reporting that he wrote in or voted against Trump), called for Trump's resignation after January 6, 2021, and is a recurring reference point in debates about whether a non-MAGA Republican lane can survive. As a governing matter he frequently checks Vermont's Democratic supermajority legislature through vetoes on taxes and spending. ## Related - [[Donald Trump]] — Scott is the clearest sitting-governor example of intra-Republican opposition - [[Republican Party]] — represents a near-vanished moderate wing