Former President George W. Bush has made an announcement about the 2024 presidential election in November – but he’s taking a less prominent stance than his vice president.
Bush, a Republican who served from 2001 to 2009, said in a statement on Saturday that he had no plans to make a public endorsement – refusing to back Donald Trump.
‘He retired from presidential politics many years ago,’ a spokesman said, adding that neither Bush nor his wife Laura would reveal who they are voting for in November.
Bush’s bitter swipe at Trump comes after he refused to back the Republican candidate in 2020 and voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. The last time he endorsed the GOP candidate was Mitt Romney in 2012.
Last week, Bush’s former vice president Dick Cheney sent shockwaves through the political sphere as he revealed that he plans to cross party lines and vote for Kamala Harris.
Cheney, who served as vice president under Bush from the duration of his two terms said on Friday that ‘in our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.’
He added: ‘As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution. That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.’
Trump called Dick Cheney an ‘irrelevant RINO along with his daughter’ in a social media post on Friday, using a term he applies to Republicans not loyal to him, which stands for ‘Republicans in Name Only.’
Mike Pence, who served as Trump’s vice president for four years, has said he will not endorse his former boss but he has also not backed Harris.
