Former RNC chair Michael Steele said he won't support Donald Trump. | AP Photo Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele won't back Trump

A former Republican National Committee chairman said Friday he will vote for neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton.

Michael Steele, who also once served as Maryland’s lieutenant governor, told guests at a dinner hosted by Mother Jones in San Francisco he won’t be casting his ballot for either major party nominee.


Steele said Trump has “captured the racist underbelly, that frustration, that angry underbelly of American life and gave voice to that,” according to BuzzFeed.

“I was damn near puking during the debates,” Steele said.

Steele, who led the RNC from 2009 to 2011, joins Marc Racicot, Mel Martinez, Bill Brock and Ken Mehlman as former RNC chiefs who said they won’t back Trump.