Jeb Bush was a regular target of Trump during the campaign. Bush said he didn’t plan to endorse or even vote for Trump, though that could change if Trump changes. “We’re Republicans. We keep our word”. That’s a measly 0.7% overall and the lowest GOP total in the last three presidential cycles. It shows that former President Bush covered up Saudi government involvement in the attacks.
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Many people, including the former presidents, didn’t attend the convention all together.
Needless to say, the Republican Party has become one big, disturbing joke.
“Jeb is an extreme disappointment”, said Charlotte County GOP Chairman Bill Folchi. “He just didn’t have what our voters wanted”.
Bush admits all the conservative anger and fear is warranted and completely understandable, but that it hasn’t inspired a debate within the party about how Republicans win the White House. “He’s certainly not a conservative”, he said. “But we have to do anything we can and make Donald Trump the next president of the United States”. “It breaks my heart”.
Trump is set to officially accept the Republican presidential nomination this week in Cleveland.
Rice’s Jones said that by skipping the convention, George P. Bush has alienated Trump supporters, though not party moderates – and not necessarily Cruz backers.
Bush also reiterated that he wasn’t voting for Trump: “I haven’t decided how I’ll vote in November – whether I’ll support the Libertarian ticket or write in a candidate…”
“I had said for a year that whoever the nominee was, thinking it was going to be Bush, that everybody needed to be prepared to coalesce around our candidate”, Miller said. “Jeb lost. Get over it”.
That’s a message the Bush family didn’t receive because they steered clear of this year’s GOP national convention. “He wants the best for our country and he will always work from that angle”.
The comment was first reported by Politico Magazine.
“It is unacceptable to me and it should be unacceptable to you that anyone who signed that pledge is not now adhering to that pledge and supporting our party’s nominee”, said Christie, who didn’t call anyone out by name. “But does it upset a lot of Floridians?”
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For his part, Bush said during his failed presidential campaign support for traditional marriage – code for opposition to gay nuptials – should be “a core American value” to protect children born in poverty. And let’s face it: “Some Republicans back home are not on board either”.
