Former President George W. Bush met with top donors for his brother Jeb the other day, and had a few words to say about Ted Cruz.
Former Republican president George W. Bush told donors that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is his brother Jeb Bush’s most “formidable” opponent in the GOP primary, according to Politico.
Politico spoke to half a dozen donors at an Oct. 18 event in Denver. The attendees reported that Bush said “I just don’t like the guy.”
Bush also slammed Cruz’s alliance with runaway frontrunner Donald Trump, who has repeatedly mocked Jeb as “pathetic” and “low energy.”
“Bush said he found it ‘opportunistic’ that Cruz was sucking up to Trump and just expecting all of his support to come to him in the end,” a donor told Politico.
Bush “said he thought Cruz was going to be a pretty formidable candidate against Jeb, especially in Texas and across the South,” said another donor.
Bush’s criticism of Cruz is interesting for two reasons. First, the two have a longstanding professional relationship. Cruz served as a domestic policy adviser for Bush when he was Texas Governor, and worked as an attorney in the Bush v. Gore case that delivered Dubya the presidency, and Cruz served in the Bush Justice Department. It’s likely they know each other well.
But more importantly, Bush has made very rare public appearances. He has stayed out of the political spotlight since being elected. That he’s emerged now is extremely interesting, and could signify just how threatened the establishment is by the emergence of outsiders like Cruz, Trump, and Carson.
AAN Staff
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