George H. Bush, former Republican President has said he will cast his vote for Hilary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee come November.
Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend, a daughter of Robert Kennedy posted on her facebook on Monday that Bush told her he would be voting for Hilary.
“The President told me he’s voting for Hillary!!”
Bush’s spokesman, Jim McGrath, did not confirm nor deny the claim.
“Those reporting how George H.W. Bush will vote this year: It’s not clear anyone was there to verify [Townsend],” McGrath said on Twitter. “Still checking, keep your powder dry.”
In an email to the New York Times, McGrath added, “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.”
Earlier this year, in May, McGrath said Bush, 92, would not endorse Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Neither would former President George W. Bush, Bush’s oldest son, McGrath added.
At the time, McGrath described Bush as old and officially “retired from politics.”
A cadre of prominent Republicans have also refused to endorse Trump.
Henry M. Paulson Jr., the Treasury secretary under George W. Bush, wrote a strident Washington Post editorial in June, which said he would vote for Clinton.
“Trump is a phony and should not be president,” Paulson wrote in a Washington Post editorial. “We are witnessing a populist hijacking of one of the United States’ great political parties. The GOP, in putting Trump at the top of the ticket, is endorsing a brand of populism rooted in ignorance, prejudice, fear and isolationism. This troubles me deeply as a Republican, but it troubles me even more as an American. Enough is enough. It’s time to put country before party and say it together: Never Trump.”