COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio’s governor has cast his vote for president — and it’s not for Donald Trump.

John Kasich has cast his presidential ballot — for 2008 Republican nominee John McCain.

Spokesman Chris Schrimpf says the Ohio governor voted straight-ticket Republican in the rest of the contests. And he’s given $2,700 from his presidential political committee, Kasich for America, to every Republican in a competitive Senate race.

The former Republican presidential candidate has been critical of both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Schrimpf says in making his vote Kasich “went with someone he could support and also kept his commitment and demonstrated his support for down-ballot Republicans.”

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that Kasich’s vote will not count, because McCain is not one of the certified write-in candidates on the Ohio ballot.

The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge is visible behind Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as she arrives at a rally at Smale Riverfront Park in Cincinnati, Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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FILE – In this Dec. 9, 2015 file photo, FBI Director James Comey prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington. Comey’s announcement that his bureau was reviewing new emails possibly relevant to Hillary Clinton’s private email server investigation has thrust him into the public spotlight again just days before Election Day. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally at the DeltaPlex in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. The rally comes just eight days before the election. (Neil Blake/The Grand Rapids Press-MLive.com via AP)

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