{"id":212065,"date":"2016-11-08T16:58:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T23:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=212065"},"modified":"2016-11-08T16:58:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T23:58:48","slug":"george-w-and-laura-bush-didnt-vote-in-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/11\/george-w-and-laura-bush-didnt-vote-in-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"George W. and Laura Bush didn&#8217;t vote in presidential race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_212069\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-212069\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/George_and_Laura_Bush_Close_Crop_jpg_800x1000_q100-771x515.jpg\" alt=\"George W. and Laura Bush\" width=\"771\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/George_and_Laura_Bush_Close_Crop_jpg_800x1000_q100-771x515.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/George_and_Laura_Bush_Close_Crop_jpg_800x1000_q100-336x224.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/George_and_Laura_Bush_Close_Crop_jpg_800x1000_q100-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/George_and_Laura_Bush_Close_Crop_jpg_800x1000_q100.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Bob Daemmrich \/ The Texas Tribune<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President George W. Bush hugs Laura Bush at the topping out ceremony for the George Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University on Oct. 3, 2011.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/directory\/george-w-bush\/\" target=\"_blank\">George W. Bush<\/a>\u00a0and Laura Bush did not vote for either major-party presidential nominee this year, a spokesman for the former president said Tuesday.\u00a0Instead, they did not make a selection at the top of the ticket and voted for Republicans down ballot.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module align-left half type-aside\">\n<h3>About this article<\/h3>\n<p>This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2016\/11\/08\/bush-43-voted-neither-trump-nor-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Texas Tribune<\/a>,\u00a0a nonpartisan, nonprofit media organization that informs Texans and engages with them about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;They didn&#8217;t vote for Hillary; they didn&#8217;t vote for Trump,&#8221; spokesman Freddy Ford wrote in an email to The Texas Tribune after radio host Rush Limbaugh suggested Tuesday that the Bushes had voted for Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Neither George W. Bush nor his father, fellow former President George H.W. Bush, endorsed their Republican Party&#8217;s nominee, Donald Trump. But it has been an open question whether they would cast a ballot for Trump \u2014 or his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation flared in September that George H.W. Bush was planning to vote for Clinton. His spokesman neither confirmed nor denied reports at the time \u2014 or on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not commenting on the presidential race,&#8221; Jim McGrath, a spokesman for George H.W. Bush, said in an email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George W. Bush and Laura Bush did not make a selection at the top of the ticket. They voted for Republicans down ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[708,3307,3308,226,194,2260,116],"class_list":["post-212065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-presidential-race","tag-republican-party","tag-texas","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}