Jeb Bush's Son Pushes Republicans to Support Donald Trump

Jeb Bush may not be willing to look past the insults Donald Trump hurled at him throughout the 2016 election season, but his son is.

George P. Bush, the Texas land commissioner, who is also serving as the site GOP's victory chairman, is breaking with his father — and virtually the entire Bush family — to back the Republican nominee. At a Saturday gathering of Texas GOP activists, Bush said it was time to unite behind Trump in his fall campaign against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Although Bush stopped short of a full endorsement of Trump, he said it was important to block Clinton from the White House.

"I know a lot of us in this room had dogs in the fight of the primary, leading up to the race. But you know what? It’s time to put it aside,” he said. "From Team Bush, it's a bitter pill to swallow, but you know what? You get back up and you help the man that won, and you make sure that we stop Hillary Clinton.”

Others in his family don't see it the same way.

Last week, former president George W. Bush, while speaking at a private fundraiser for Ohio Senator Rob Portman, criticized Trump's policies of "isolationism, nativism and protectionism" and his general break with Republican policies — all without directly naming the New York businessman.

Neither George W. Bush, nor his father and former president George H.W. Bush, attended the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last month, and both of them have said they will not endorse Trump. Jeb Bush, who was once the favorite to win the Republican nomination, has remained critical of Trump after leaving the 2016 race.

Earlier this year, family matriarch Barbara Bush admitted she had enough of Trump, saying she was "sick of him."

"He doesn't give many answers to how he would solve problems. He sort of makes faces and says insulting things," she said about Trump. "He's said terrible things about women, terrible things about the military. I don't understand why people are for him, for that reason."

"I'm a woman," she added. "I'm not crazy about what he says about women."

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