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The Hill reports:
Former President George W. Bush does not plan to formally endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, his office told multiple outlets on Saturday. Neither Bush nor his wife Laura Bush plans to publicly share who they will vote for with his office adding that “President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago.”
Bush’s decision not to endorse a candidate in this White House election comes just a day after his then-vice president, Dick Cheney, confirmed he would be voting for Vice President Harris. His daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), shared her father’s decision hours earlier at the Texas Tribune Festival on Friday.
NBC News reports:
The fact that Bush is not endorsing his party’s nominee is itself notable. In 2012, Bush said he was backing Republican candidate Mitt Romney against former President Barack Obama. Four years earlier, Bush endorsed the now-late Sen. John McCain for president in 2008.
Both former Bush presidents’ teams said in 2016 that the father and son would avoid commenting on Trump. Instead, the younger Bush worked to support Republican senators. Neither Bush nor his wife voted for either major party presidential nominee in 2016, a spokesperson said that year.
Bush wrote in Condoleezza Rice in 2020.
The country need bravery and the list of gutless men keeps growing. https://t.co/Xj76yId5Ma
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) September 8, 2024