Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, appeared to take a swing at George H.W. Bush on Tuesday after it was revealed that the former president may be voting for Hillary Clinton.
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According to CNN, there were about 40 other people in attendance, and it is unclear exactly how many heard him say it, but there are multiple sources who say that he did.
Most of the 41st president’s Cabinet secretaries and national security officials have refused to back Trump as well, and will instead vote for the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton.
“I mean, look, I fought his son very hard”, Trump said. “It was a private conversation with [Kennedy Townsend] during a Points of Light photo receiving line”.
A spokesman for the former president, Jim McGrath, moved quickly to tamp down the chatter in a statement: “The vote President Bush will cast as a private citizen in some 50 days will be just that: a private vote cast in some 50 days”. The representative simply said George W. Bush is “spending his time working to keep the Senate in Republican hands and is not commenting on the presidential campaign”.
“I hold President Bush in the highest regard and I respect his opinion but I respectfully and strongly disagree”, Pence said on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor”. John McCain – though somewhat reluctantly, often referring to “the Republican nominee” rather than Trump by name.
During the bruising Republican primary, Donald Trump repeatedly attacked former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, son of President George H.W. Bush.
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Townsend’s post was reported on Monday by Politico. The former MA governor went out of his way to warn voters against electing Trump during the Republican primaries. The fact that a member of one American political dynasty shared the news that another member of an American political dynasty will vote for the member of yet another American political dynasty was treated by Trump fans as affirmation of their conspiratorial mindset – not as a highly credible critique of their Republican candidate by a former Republican president.
