Former President George W. Bush is not planning to endorse any presidential candidate.
Mr. Bush’s former vice president, Dick Cheney, said last week he will cross party lines to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for the White House in November. He did so after his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney, said she also would endorse the Democratic nominee.
But when asked if Mr. Bush would say who he was endorsing, his office said, “No.”
“President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago,” his office said.
His wife, Laura Bush, won’t be making a public endorsement either.
Last month, more than 200 former GOP aides who worked for Mr. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain or Sen. Mitt Romney, said in an open letter that they are endorsing Ms. Harris.
Mr. Bush, Mr. Romney of Utah and McCain of Arizona were the three Republican presidential candidates before Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. However, most of the aides backing Ms. Harris also backed President Biden in 2020.
“We reunite today, joined by new George H.W. Bush alumni, to reinforce our 2020 statements and, for the first time, jointly declare that we’re voting for Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz this November,” the letter said. “Of course, we have plenty of honest, ideological disagreements with Vice President Harris and Gov. Walz. That’s to be expected. The alternative, however, is simply untenable.”
In 2020, Mr. Bush didn’t vote for Mr. Trump or President Biden. Instead, he wrote in the name of his former secretary of state, Condoleeza Rice.
In 2016, he left the presidential line empty when voting, opting for neither Mr. Trump nor former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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