
Bush says he wrote in Condoleezza Rice for president in 2020
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Former President George W. Bush wrote in the name of his former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on his 2020 presidential ballot rather than voting for his own party's nominee Donald Trump for reelection, he told People magazine.
"She knows it," Bush told the magazine, referring to Rice, one of his closest advisers during his presidency. "But she told me she would refuse to accept the office." It's the latest example of how the 43rd president and patriarch of one of the Republican Party's most prominent dynasties has become estranged from the modern GOP, though in the same interview, Bush tamped down his recent criticism of the party.
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