George W. Bush has been urged to back Kamala Harris in the upcoming election after his daughter Barbara campaigned to elect the Democratic candidate.
speaking in The New York Radio Hour PodcastFormer Republican Rep. Liz Cheney urged the former president to speak out about the dangers of Donald Trump.
Cheney, daughter of Bush’s former vice president Dick Cheney, said: “I can’t explain why (he) hasn’t spoken, but I think it’s time and I wish he would.”
Cheney’s father has already crossed party lines and said “Trump should never again be entrusted with power,” and his daughter confirmed she supported Harris.
As Barbara Bush, 42, campaigned in Pennsylvania last week to elect Harris, pressure for the former commander in chief, 78, to choose a side is starting to build.
Bush watches before the first game of the World Series between the Texas Rangers and the Arizona Diamondbacks at Globe Life Field on October 27, 2023 in Arlington, Texas.
Liz Cheney, daughter of Bush’s former vice president Dick Cheney, had already supported Harris, along with her father.
In September this year, a spokesperson for Bush told DailyMail.com that he had no plans to make any public endorsement.
“He retired from presidential politics many years ago,” they said, adding that neither Bush nor his wife Laura would reveal who they will vote for in November.
Even though Bush supported her mother, her daughter Barbara told People, “It was inspiring to join friends and meet Harris campaign voters in Pennsylvania this weekend.”
“I am hopeful that they will move our country forward and protect women’s rights.”
It was a discreet gesture, but it still made her the last person identified with the pre-Trump Republican Party to throw her support behind the Democratic candidate.
The activist is no stranger to campaigning, although she maintains a low public profile.
He spoke at the Republican National Convention in 2004 and campaigned for his father’s re-election in swing states.
Her twin sister, Jenna, previously spoke out about the personal toll politics takes when Joe Biden announced he would not seek re-election.
“We’ve become such a politically divided country that sometimes it’s hard to think, ‘Oh my God, he’s a human being,'” Jenna told the Today show.
“I just hope that we can get back as a country to a place where we think, ‘Oh yeah, he’s a human being and this must have been a really difficult decision,’ and one that his family probably helped, supported, but is also sad. and that’s understandable,”
It was a discreet gesture, but it still made her the last person identified with the pre-Trump Republican Party to throw her support behind the Democratic candidate.
Both Cheneys are former House Republican leaders, and the elder Cheney served two terms as George W. Bush’s Republican vice president from 2001 to 2009.
The former president is seen here with his wife Laura and daughters Jenna and Barbara.
The registered Republican called his decision “admirable” and said Biden had to make “a difficult decision because many one-term presidents don’t feel like the job was done.”
Trump continually mocked George Bush’s younger brother Jeb, his sister’s uncle, during his successful 2016 campaign.
He has called his father’s two terms “a failed and uninspiring presidency” while essentially taking over the party where the Bush dynasty dominated for years.
Trump also lashed out at Dick Cheney, while calling his daughter Liz Cheney, who is campaigning for Harris, a “warmonger.”
“Her father was responsible for invading the Middle East, killing millions of Arabs – millions – and this is who Kamala is campaigning with,” Trump said.
Speaking Thursday night at an event with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Trump sparked outrage after calling Liz Cheney a “dumb war hawk.”
He said: ‘She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels firing at her, okay, let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when guns are pointed in his face.
“She’s a radical war hawk,” Trump began before speculating about a possible firing squad.
Democrats immediately criticized him for the comment, but Harris went a step further and said Trump should no longer be in the presidential race.
He told reporters: “Anyone who wants to be president of the United States and uses that kind of violent rhetoric is clearly disqualified and unqualified to be president.”
Harris called Cheney “a true patriot who has shown extraordinary courage in putting country above party.”
‘Trump, however, considers his political opponents as enemies and is constantly seeking revenge and is increasingly unstable and unhinged. His list of enemies has gotten longer.
“His rhetoric has become more extreme and he is even less focused than before on the needs, concerns and challenges facing the American people,” Harris added.
The Democratic candidates said she has not spoken to Cheney since Trump’s comment.
Trump has long been a critic of Cheney, who criticized him for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection and was one of two Republican lawmakers who served on the House committee that investigated it.
In March, Trump called for Cheney to be jailed for her role in the investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that Cheney should “go to jail along with the rest” of the Jan. 6 House select committee.
