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Bush Announces Primary Challenge to Paxton

June 3, 2021 at 9:07 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush (R) announced that he is running for attorney general, challenging fellow Republican Ken Paxton (R) with a sharp focus on Paxton’s legal troubles, the Texas Tribune reports.

Filed Under: 2022 Campaign Tagged With: George P. Bush

The Next George Bush Bets Everything On Trump

April 16, 2019 at 11:01 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Atlantic: “George P. Bush is running. For what? Probably governor of Texas. When? It’s too soon to say. But he’s inched his way into the national consciousness in the past two years, first as the lone Bush to endorse Donald Trump for president, and more recently as the final person to eulogize George H. W. Bush before he was laid to rest.”

“Which is to say, Bush is moving now to claim his title as Future of the GOP. But will the party of Trump tolerate a candidate who mirrors a past class of conservatives in tone, in temperament, in ideology? And even if Bush does manage to satisfy the base’s newly populist appetites, can he do so without alienating the broader cross-section of voters needed to win a general election?”

Filed Under: State House Tagged With: George P. Bush

Trump Jr. Pulls Out of Bush Fundraiser

June 19, 2018 at 12:10 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Two sources close to Donald Trump Jr. tell Axios that he has decided to pull out of a fundraiser for George P. Bush due to the Bush family’s opposition to his father.

Most recently, Jeb Bush tweeted that “children shouldn’t be used as a negotiating tool” and that President Trump should end his “heartless policy” of family separation.

Filed Under: 2018 Campaign Tagged With: Donald Trump Jr., George P. Bush

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Trump Son Endorses George P. Bush’s Re-Election Bid

February 6, 2018 at 2:03 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Donald Trump Jr. has endorsed George P. Bush’s re-election bid for Texas land commissioner, repaying Bush for breaking with his powerful political family and supporting Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential bid, the AP reports.

Filed Under: State House Tagged With: Donald Trump Jr., George P. Bush

Jeb Bush’s Son Urges Support for Trump

August 8, 2016 at 7:35 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush (R) is now asking Texas Republicans to support Donald Trump, the Texas Tribune reports.

“Addressing state GOP activists Saturday, Bush said it was time to put aside any lingering animosity from the primaries — where Trump defeated Bush’s dad, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, among others — and get behind Trump.”

Said Bush: “From Team Bush, it’s a bitter pill to swallow, but you know what? You get back up and you help the man that won, and you make sure that we stop Hillary Clinton.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: George P. Bush, Jeb Bush

Texas ‘Victory Chairman’ Won’t Back Trump

June 11, 2016 at 12:32 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 40 Comments

Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush (R) was named the party’s 2016 “victory chairman,” charged with raising money and running the statewide campaign to “annihilate the Democrats up-and-down the ballot this November,” the Austin American-Statesman reports.

“No matter that Donald Trump, who humiliated Bush’s father, Jeb, as ‘low energy,’ during the rough and tumble GOP presidential race, will presumably be topping the ticket, and that neither Jeb Bush, nor George P. Bush’s uncle, former President George W. Bush, nor his grandfather, former President George H.W. Bush, plan to back Trump.”

George P. Bush said he doesn’t plan to endorse or even vote for Trump either.

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: George P. Bush, Texas

A New Bush Already in the Spotlight

February 5, 2015 at 6:47 am EST By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments

“George P. Bush’s new job as Texas land commissioner has nothing to do with abortion, and it lacks any authority to funnel public dollars to private schools. But after barely 30 days in office, he’s already headlined high-profile rallies on both issues,” the AP reports.

“The 38-year-old has a political surname far better known than his obscure office, which administers Texas’ vast public lands and mineral rights. Though he insists he’s not yet eying any moves up Texas’ political ladder, the newest Bush in politics has wasted no time becoming a leading voice for top conservative causes and seizing the spotlight in a state already full of powerful Republicans.”

Filed Under: State House Tagged With: George P. Bush



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