Exclusive: George H.W. Bush to vote for Hillary [View all]
Source: Politico
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.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/exclusive-george-hw-bush-to-vote-for-hillary-228395
Bush's spokesman says Bush won't be speaking publicly about his vote in this election.But, as an editor from the Atlantic just said on CNN, Bush is NOT denying it. So it seems "solid." And this kind of decision by a former President is "unprecedented."
= new reply since forum marked as read