“I don’t know how women can vote for someone who said what he said about Megyn Kelly, it’s bad”, she told CBS in February.
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The claim comes from the niece of another former President, John F Kennedy. “He is not commenting on the presidential race in the interim”, McGrath said.
Pierson remarked on a situation where “you have Republicans in a record number turn out for Donald Trump and you have former leaders of the party just essentially slap them in the face”.
As reported by CNN, the Bush family is not disputing her characterisation of their conversation.
Ms Clinton and Mr Trump will go head-to-head in the first presidential debate on September 26.
Townsend – writing on Facebook under the name Kathleen Hartington – has been a longtime vocal supporter of Clinton’s campaign. The fact that Mr Bush Snr has now, apparently, stated that he will vote for Mrs Clinton, raises questions over whether both his sons – the former president and this year’s defeated Republican presidential candidate, Jeb Bush – will follow suit. The TV network said Bush made the comment “during a receiving line for board members of the bipartisan Points of Light Foundation when Bush was speaking to Kathleen Kennedy Townsend”.
Ms. Townsend told Politico website that she had met with the former President in ME earlier in the day. “He sort of makes faces and says insulting things”, Barbara Bush said about Trump.
But sources with knowledge of the conversation told CNN they were surprised and disappointed that she had publicly shared a private conversation with the former president. “But look, this was a bruising primary.so I know there are a lot of hurt feelings there”. A former US Treasury secretary, who served under Bush Jr, recently announced that he would be casting his vote for Clinton.
Former President George W. Bush, Bush’s oldest son, was also not planning on making a public endorsement, his aide Freddy Ford said at the time.
Former President H.W. Bush, who lost to Clinton’s spouse, former President Bill Clinton, during the 1992 election, has kept his views towards Trump private throughout 2016.
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A family spokesman did not deny that the former president would vote for a Democrat.
