Bush 41, 43 Have No Plans to Endorse Trump
Source: Texas Tribune
For the first time since his own presidency, George H.W. Bush is planning to stay silent in the race for the Oval Office and the younger former president Bush plans to stay silent as well.
Bush 41, who enthusiastically endorsed every Republican nominee for the past five election cycles, will stay out of the campaign process this time. He does not have plans to endorse presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, spokesman Jim McGrath told The Texas Tribune.
At age 91, President Bush is retired from politics, McGrath wrote in an email Wednesday. He came out of retirement to do a few things for Jeb, but those were the exceptions that proved the rule. His son Jeb Bush dropped out of the GOP presidential race in February.
Bush 43, meanwhile, "does not plan to participate in or comment on the presidential campaign," according to his personal aide, Freddy Ford.
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2016/05/04/bush-41-43-have-no-plans-endorse-trump
Jack Bone
(2,023 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Evangelicals hated Romney and his cult in one election, and loved him and his religion in the next.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Heh.
Seriously, if Jeb is any kind of man, there is no way he shouldn't punch Donald in the face.
Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)Is low energy Jeb going to support Trump?
pnwmom
(109,028 posts)ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)Is a nice man and well-intentioned, if wrong.
He pretty much chose public service his entire life, when he could have been off doing rich people things. So he has some gravitas.
He was back from the days where Republicans and Democrats pulled in the same direction, or at least tried to. And when they disagreed, they did so without being disagreeable.
So, I think his lack of endorsement is a significant issue to the more serious Republicans.
No one cares about W or Jeb. They're idiots.
Cayenne
(480 posts)Those war mongers will acquiesce to Hillary. That's the neocons she will attract to make up any Bernie loses and then some.