“From Team Bush it’s a bitter pill to swallow”, Bush told Republicans.
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Remarks from George P. Bush, the Texas land commissioner, at an event for state Republican activists Satuday, signify a break with other members of the Bush family, including his father, President George W. Bush and great-grandfather former President George H.W. Bush, all of whom have declined to endorse the Republican nominee.
The news also comes as Trump has slipped slightly in polls, with the most recent CNN poll showing Trump behind Clinton by 10 percentage points.
Bush, the Texas land commissioner, called for Republicans to rally behind Donald Trump.
Jeb Bush may not be willing to look past the insults Donald Trump hurled at him throughout the 2016 election season, but his son is.
The next generation of Bush’s is urging fellow Republicans to reconsider Trump and to give him the support he needs to defeat Hilary Clinton.
It’s been a rough few years for the Bush family, which has been forced to stomach the rise of a GOP nominee who openly detests them.
“I will not vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, but I will support principled conservatives at the state and federal levels, just as I have done my entire life”, he wrote on his Facebook page in May.
George P. Bush, first elected in 2014, has until now been a Trump holdout.
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Jeb Bush predicted in July that the real estate mogul’s supporters will feel “betrayed” when his campaign promises fail to materialize. However, George P. Bush, son of Jeb Bush and now Texas Land Commissioner, has urged his fellow Republicans to support the mercurial real estate tycoon and reality TV star.
