Karl Rove denies bullying Ted Cruz over 2009 backing from George H.W. Bush

WASHINGTON — Add GOP operative Karl Rove to the ever-growing list of Ted Cruz’s political adversaries.

In Cruz’s forthcoming book, A Time for Truth, set for publication Tuesday, he recounts a tense confrontation in which Rove bullied him into burying an endorsement from George H.W. Bush amid concerns that it would alienate donors to the George W. Bush library in Dallas.

Rove, in Cruz’s telling, also called Bush “too old” to exercise sound political judgment in such matters — an assertion bound to stir consternation in the tight knit family hoping to elect its third president next year.

Rove issued a stern denial Sunday, saying he never questioned the mental faculties of a president he has revered for decades. He said his concern about the endorsement was that Greg Abbott hadn’t yet announced whether he would seek re-election as attorney general.

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