George W. Bush congratulates Biden on his victory.

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: New York Times

Former President George W. Bush congratulated President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Sunday, becoming the highest-profile Republican to publicly declare the election over in defiance of President Trump’s refusal to accept the results. “I extended my warm congratulations and thanked him for the patriotic message he delivered last night,” Mr. Bush said in a statement released after he spoke with Mr. Biden by telephone. “I also called Kamala Harris to congratulate her on her historic election to the vice presidency. Though we have political differences, I know Joe Biden to be a good man who has won his opportunity to lead and unify our country.”

He added: “I want to congratulate President Trump and his supporters on a hard-fought campaign. He earned the votes of more than 70 million Americans — an extraordinary political achievement. They have spoken, and their voices will continue to be heard through elected Republicans at every level of government.”

Mr. Bush, the only living former Republican president, put his stamp on the outcome even as many of his party’s elected leaders held back either out of loyalty to Mr. Trump or out of fear of crossing the outgoing president. Mr. Trump has falsely asserted that the election was stolen without any evidence, leaving his party in the awkward position of following a president refusing to accept the reality that other Republicans have, even if they do not say so out loud.

Republican leaders like Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky have refused to publicly acknowledge Mr. Biden’s victory without necessarily embracing Mr. Trump’s wild claims. Many of them have either remained silent or straddled the line with statements calling for all legal votes to be counted and suggesting that the president should be permitted to file any lawsuits or call for any recounts allowed under the law. Only a few well-known Republicans, like Senators Mitt Romney of Utah and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, have congratulated Mr. Biden.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/us/politics/george-w-bush-congratulates-biden-on-his-victory.html

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Funny that Jebby (overseer of Bush v. Gore) had done it first.

[live love laugh]

1. Fuck Bush. nt

[jrthin]

3. +1000

[BumRushDaShow]

5. During my very first trip to San Franciso

almost 20 years ago, I was staying in a hotel near the Embarcadaro and damned if there wasn't a small hi-rise building not far from the hotel with a large (but unused) billboard on the roof visible from the sidewalk, that was decorated with the HUGE spray-painted words - "FUCK BUSH". (true story)

[htuttle]

2. This is conceeding by proxy

They know Trump won't.

[FoxNewsSucks]

4. Fuck that lying war criminal.

Nice half-assed statement from a guy who cheated to steal the office.

Then this: “I want to congratulate President Trump and his supporters on a hard-fought campaign. He earned the votes of more than 70 million Americans — an extraordinary political achievement. They have spoken, and their voices will continue to be heard through elected Republicans at every level of government.”


Good reminder that 70 million idiot teabaggers/MAGAts will still be around flinging feces, and they are who today's republicon party listens to.

[dhill926]

6. yep....saw that...fuck him....

[C Moon]

9. Gore would have been an awesome President!

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Gerorge is just a messager for

the real money behind the Republican Party. The Billionaires in his Gated Community. Plus,the GOP Texas Money People are seeing their Plantational Rule coming to a end. How many Thousands of Mail in Ballots never made it out of the Post Office? 186k?

[BlueWavePsych]

8. Bush congratulates Biden, says election was 'fundamentally fair' and 'its outcome is clear'

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/08/politics/george-w-bush-congratulates-biden/index.html

Former President George W. Bush congratulated President-elect Joe Biden in a phone call Sunday and said that, while President Donald Trump has the right to pursue legal challenges and recounts, the 2020 race was "fundamentally fair" and "its outcome is clear."

The gesture by Bush, the only living former Republican president, was a break from his party's outgoing president, Trump, who has so far refused to concede the race.

In the statement, Bush said he had called Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Sunday.
"Though we have political differences, I know Joe Biden to be a good man, who has won his opportunity to lead and unify our country," Bush said. "The President-elect reiterated that while he ran as a Democrat, he will govern for all Americans. I offered him the same thing I offered Presidents Trump and Obama: my prayers for his success, and my pledge to help in any way I can."

Bush also offered congratulations in the statement to Trump "on a hard-fought campaign," nodding to his "extraordinary political achievement" of winning the votes of more than 70 million Americans, the second-most in history behind Biden. "They have spoken, and their voices will continue to be heard through elected Republicans at every level of government," Bush said.

[Hekate]

10. KnR

[Liberty Belle]

11. This is helpful, despite coming from the 2nd worse president in U.S. history.

When even Bush is calling for a peaceful transfer of power and acknowledging that Biden won, the walls must be closing in on Trump. He is probably climbing them by now and ready for a padded cell.

[Mickju]

12. The war criminal could have endorsed Biden, but chose not to.

He can go fuck himself.

[Brother Mythos]

13. "I really don't care. Do U?"

[oldsoftie]

14. Thank you, Mr "last republican to win a 2nd term" President.

And THAT will stick in trumps craw for a long time