Former President George W. Bush said he has no plans to make a public endorsement in the 2024 presidential election.

“President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago,” Bush’s office told NBC News in a statement.

Bush’s refusal to publicly endorse any candidate in the election follows his vice president, Dick Cheney, giving Kamala Harris his endorsement.

Per NBC News:

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign declined to comment but pointed to the campaign’s Republican outreach efforts.

Bush’s former vice president, Dick Cheney, announced on Friday that he would back Harris in the November election.

“In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said in a statement. “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.”

Days earlier, the former vice president’s daughter, former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, said that she would cast her ballot for Harris. Both Cheneys, who are Republicans, have been critical of former President Donald Trump, and the younger Cheney has been especially outspoken.

From the New York Post:

The former Republican president’s refusal to endorse anyone in the upcoming election follows a similar trend he used in the previous two races.

In the 2016 election, Bush voted straight Republican on the ticket but left the presidential line empty — opting not to vote for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

During Trump’s first reelection bid in 2020, Bush didn’t cast a vote for either Trump or President Joe Biden.

He wrote in Condoleezza Rice’s name, his former secretary of state who served in his administration from 2005 to 2009.

Bush shared the shocking revelation during an interview with People in 2021, saying he told Rice of his endorsement.

 

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