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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInteresting that W voted for Joe.
I suspect all the Bushes did. I infer that by his congratulating Jim Clyburn for his endorsement of Joe Biden, telling him Biden was the only candidate that could rid us of the orange menace.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)And it's pretty unimaginable to me that H.W. Bush would have voted Trump, were he still alive.
What surprised and horrified me was when James Baker's new biographers stated in several recent interviews that James Baker voted for Trump in 2020, stating Baker couldn't bring himself to vote for a Democrat even in those circumstances. Baker is often held up as a "respectable" Republican in the old style.
Trumpdumper
(171 posts)"Fuck Baker. He didn't vote for us anyway!"
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,731 posts)I am not a fan of W but at least this time he did the right thing.
WA-03 Democrat
(3,050 posts)Sea change moment for the Biden campaign. His advice for Joe was taken and Joe won. So many people helped but Clyburn, in my opinion, was the catalyst.
I think the all voted for JEB!
Mike Nelson
(9,958 posts)... they (or the vast majority) voted for Joe. I think they voted for Hillary, too... also, most of the surviving Reagan family. I think a majority probably voted for Obama, too.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)I'm not at all surprised. Dumbya called it "some weird shit." That was telling about what he thinks of Trump even then.
In It to Win It
(8,253 posts)wishstar
(5,270 posts)but this time seems probable that W and Laura and of course the daughters voted Biden/Harris especially since the young Barbara was an open Hillary supporter and then she and Jenna co-authored an editorial condemning Trump's Muslim ban.
apnu
(8,758 posts)In the 2016 campaign and occasionally in the Oval Office.
W, to Trump, represented the establishment Republicans that Trump ran against.
no_hypocrisy
(46,117 posts)not necessarily for Joe.
Trump insulted him, his brother (Jeb), his father.
Thats enough to explain his vote.
LeftInTX
(25,364 posts)Regardless of the insults to Jeb, Bush would have definitely voted against Trump's re-election in 2020. There is a good chance he would have voted against Trump in 2016 due to Trump's crazy foreign policy ideas.