Former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush did not cast a ballot for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, according to a spokesman.
Speculation about the 43rd president’s vote started to run rampant after Rush Limbaugh told his listeners Tuesday that Bush voted for Clinton. However, Freddy Ford, a spokesman for Bush and wife, shot down those rumors, telling the Texas Tribune that they did not vote for either candidate and voted for Republicans down-ballot candidates.
“They didn’t vote for Hillary; they didn’t vote for Trump,” Ford said in a statement.
Bush, along with his father, George H.W. Bush, declined to support Trump after he became the GOP nominee in May, choosing not to appear at the Republican National Convention in July. A spokesman for the 41st president declined to reveal who he voted for.
“We are not commenting on the presidential race,” Jim McGrath, a spokesman for Bush, told the Tribune in an email.
A firestorm emerged in mid-September after Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend, the former Maryland lieutenant governor and daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, said on Facebook that the former president told her that he was planning to vote for Clinton on Tuesday, leading to wider speculation about the rest of the Bush family.
