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Amid push to follow Cheney’s lead, GWB decides on potential endorsement in 2024 election

September 8, 2024 | | Print Article

George W. Bush is going to sit this one out with the former president reportedly declining to weigh in on this year’s election, unlike his former vice president who endorsed Kamala Harris.

Harris allies and Never Trumpers have been positively giddy since Dick Cheney announced that he’s backing Harris, a resounding statement that serves as an exclamation point that the Democrats are now the party of the costly and ruinous foreign wars championed by the warmongering ex-veep.

But Bush isn’t going to similarly defect, choosing not to tarnish his family’s legacy by coming out in favor of the left-wing Democrat nominee who would bring communist-style policies like grocery price controls to the White House if elected.

When asked by NBC News whether Dubya or former First Lady Laura Bush would be endorsing a candidate or announcing who they would be voting for, Bush’s office responded, “No.”

“President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago,” the 43rd president’s office told the outlet.

To his credit and unlike other living former presidents, Bush has largely refrained from the sort of Trump-bashing that’s unbecoming to men who in a more refined time, would have been a statement that isn’t likely to be used when referring to Cheney.

Following his malicious troll of a daughter, disgraced former congresswoman Liz Cheney, the 83-year-old D.C. icon assailed his own party’s nominee in a caustic statement, throwing his support to Harris and seeming to show that he’s much more invested in keeping the proxy war in Ukraine humming along than the destructive authoritarian socialism that Harris would bring.

“In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again,” Cheney said in a statement.

“As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution. That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” he added.

Harris warmly welcomed the endorsement of “Darth Vader” on Saturday.

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“I am actually honored to have their endorsement and I think what they both as leaders, who are leaders that are well respected are making an important statement that it is ok and is important to put country above party,” she said of Dick and Liz. “And them stepping up to make this public statement, I think is courageous, but also for the folks I was just talking with, it really reinforces for them that we love our country and we have more in common than what separates us.”

Bush’s decision to stay out of the election may hurt his image now that the hypocrites of the left have rehabbed him for not being Trump and he deserves credit for not taking their bait.

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