The word is that George Bush Sr. told a friend he’s going to be pulling the lever for Hillary Clinton!
Here’s the story from CNN:
.@jamiegangel: Sources not denying George HW Bush said he is voting for Hillary Clinton https://t.co/1IA3k54DxD https://t.co/ujyDWHzM6R
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) September 20, 2016
Even his own people didn’t deny it.
Here’s the facebook entry just in case you missed it in the video:
Politico has more:
Former President George H.W. Bush is bucking his party’s presidential nominee and plans to vote for Hillary Clinton in November, according to a member of another famous political family, the Kennedys.
Bush, 92, had intended to stay silent on the White House race between Clinton and Donald Trump, a sign in and of itself of his distaste for the GOP nominee. But his preference for the wife of his own successor, President Bill Clinton, nonetheless became known to a wider audience thanks to Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend, the former Maryland lieutenant governor and daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy.
On Monday, Townsend posted a picture on her Facebook page shaking hands next to the former president and this caption: “The President told me he’s voting for Hillary!!”
In a telephone interview, Townsend said she met with the former president in Maine earlier today, where she said he made his preference known that he was voting for a Democrat. “That’s what he said,” she told POLITICO.
Asked about Townsend’s post, George H.W. Bush spokesman Jim McGrath in an email replied, “The vote President Bush will cast as a private citizen in some 50 days will be just that: a private vote cast in some 50 days. He is not commenting on the presidential race in the interim.”
Wow. That’s pretty big for a former Republican president to be voting for Hillary. I know Trump is a disaster, but I don’t understand how any Republican, especially at this level, can vote for Hillary in this election.
Worst. Election. Ever.