Former President George W. Bush doesn’t plan to disclose whom he’ll vote for within the upcoming 2024 election.
“No,” the previous president’s workplace stated when requested by NBC Information whether or not he or former First Girl Laura Bush would endorse a candidate publicly. “President Bush retired from presidential politics years in the past.”
Bush’s refusal to make a public endorsement comes only a day after his former vp, Dick Cheney, introduced that he would go towards his get together’s candidate and assist Vice President Kamala Harris in November.
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Former U.S. President George W. Bush seems on earlier than kickoff between the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants at AT&T Stadium on November 12, 2023, in Arlington, Texas. (Picture by Cooper Neill/Getty Photos)
“In our nation’s 248-year historical past, there has by no means been a person who’s a better risk to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney stated in an announcement. “He tried to steal the final election utilizing lies and violence to maintain himself in energy after the voters had rejected him. He can by no means be trusted with energy once more.”
Trump responded to Cheney’s endorsement by calling the previous vp “an irrelevant RINO” in a Reality Social put up shortly after Cheney’s announcement.
Talking to reporters Sunday, Harris stated she was “honored” to have Cheney’s endorsement, including that it “actually reinforces for them that we love our nation, and we’ve extra in widespread than what separates.”
The Harris marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a Fox Information Digital request for touch upon Bush’s silence.
Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at a marketing campaign rally in Savannah, Georgia, August 29, 2024. Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz (Reuters)
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Whereas Bush’s workplace argued the previous president “retired from presidential politics years in the past,” he has made endorsements of Republican presidential candidates prior to now. In 2008, he supported then-Senator John McCain’s bid towards former President Barack Obama and likewise threw his weight behind the 2012 candidacy of Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah.
Bush’s stance on presidential politics seemingly modified with the emergence of former President Donald Trump in 2016, whom Bush averted commenting on. Bush as an alternative centered on supporting Republican senators. In November, his workplace stated that he and the previous first girl didn’t vote for both main get together candidate within the 2016 election.
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally held with Republican vice presidential nominee Senator JD Vance, in Atlanta, Georgia, August 3, 2024. Reuters/Megan Varner
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After Trump’s failed bid for re-election in 2020, Bush stated that he had written in former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in that 12 months’s race.
The Trump marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a Fox Information Digital request for remark.
