WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. President George W. Bush, a Republican, doesn’t plan to make an endorsement or voice how he or his spouse Laura will vote within the presidential election in November, a spokesman mentioned on Saturday.
“He retired from presidential politics many years ago,” mentioned the spokesman, who didn’t want to be named.
The announcement got here a day after Bush’s vice chairman, Dick Cheney, introduced he would cross celebration traces and vote for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris over Republican former President Donald Trump.
Cheney, who served as vice chairman underneath Bush from 2001 to 2009, mentioned 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.”
Harris mentioned on Saturday endorsements of her by Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz, a former U.S. Consultant, have been “courageous” for placing nation forward of political celebration.
Mike Pence, who served as Trump’s vice chairman for 4 years, has mentioned he won’t endorse his former boss however has not backed Harris.
