George W Bush reveals his decision on 2024 endorsement after Cheney snubbed Trump

The 43rd president won’t follow in the footsteps of his former No. 2, Dick Cheney, who said last week that he would vote for Democrat Kamala Harris instead of Republican Donald Trump.

Trump’s biggest Republican critic, Cheney’s daughter and former House Rep Liz Cheney, urged conservatives to vote for Harris come November during a high-profile event Friday.

Harris and running mate Sen. Tim Waltz are targeting Republicans alienated by Trump, with Harris telling CNN in an interview that she would consider including a Republican in her Cabinet.

Bush’s office said Saturday that neither he nor former First Lady Laura Bush will endorse a candidate or publicly share how they would vote ahead of this month’s election, per NBC.

"President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago," his office said in statement.

Bush attended Trump’s 2017 inauguration following Trump’s win over Hillary Clinton, and reportedly called the speech, "Some weird s—."

A Bush spokesperson said after the 2016 election that the former president and his wife did not vote for Trump or Clinton.

He also refused to back Trump or Joe Biden this year. Bush told People that he wrote in former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s name.

"Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris," Cheney’s daughter said on Friday at the Texas Tribune Festival. "If you think about the moment we’re in, and you think about how serious this moment is, my dad believes — and he said publicly — there has never been an individual in our country who is as grave a threat to our democracy as Donald Trump is.

Liz Cheney is trying to persuade Republicans holding their noses for Trump to see things her way. Republicans who oppose their party’s nominee have been buoyed by the excitement surrounding Harris since she joined the ticket in August.

The Harris campaign on Sunday noted the “historic support” it has received from Republicans, Democrats, and independents in its campaign against the Trump-Walz ticket.

Harris has “the support of Republican thought leaders including Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Geoff Duncan, Stephanie Grisham, and Olivia Troye,” the campaign said, referring to the former Georgia lieutenant governor, ex-Trump White House press secretary, and former Pence adviser respectively.

Harris also has the backing of more than 230 alumni from the campaigns of George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney, the campaign said.

"As hundreds of Republican leaders have already recognized, Vice President Harris is offering a ‘New Way Forward for all Americans who reject Donald Trump’s ongoing threats to our democracy and dangerous Project 2025 agenda,’ " the campaign said in a statement. “Between now and Election Day, Team Harris-Walz will continue making the case to conservative, independent, and moderate voters that they have the choice to put their country and democracy first and leave Donald Trump’s toxic chaos and division behind.”

But even with Harris trying to move closer to the political center ahead of election day, a new poll shows that moderates in battleground states might not be buying what she’s selling.

In a new New York Times/Siena College poll, Trump leads Harris 48-47 percent, and voters said they perceive Trump to be closer to the political middle than the vice president, even though Harris has positioned herself as the candidate in the center.

Almost half of all voters in the poll view Harris as too liberal or progressive.

Harris and Trump will square off in their first debate on Tuesday night at the University of Pittsburgh.