Former President George W. Bush revealed that Condoleeza Rice, who served as his secretary of state, beat out President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump as his top choice on the 2020 ballot.
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The 43rd president said he joked with Rice about his vote to put her as a write-in candidate in November.
“She knows it. But she told me she would refuse to accept the office,” Bush, 74, told People Magazine.
Bush, a Republican, made the revelation shortly after he described today’s GOP as “isolationist, protectionist, and, to a certain extent, nativist.”
He amended those comments in his latest interview to say that he shouldn’t have painted the whole party as being that way.
“Really what I should have said — there’s loud voices who are isolationists, protectionists, and nativists, something, by the way, I talked about when I was president,” Bush said.
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The former president has been making media appearances to promote his new book Out of Many, One: Portraits of American Immigrants, which highlights the contributions of immigrants and features some of his oil paintings.
Bush served as president from 2001 to 2009 and was succeeded by former President Barack Obama.
