Bush’s 11th-hour entry created a conservative cluster in the nation’s largest, messiest and most expensive Republican primary. Let the mudslinging begin!
With the direction that the Republican Party is headed, 2020 may be the year that proves whether a Bush can even get elected near Houston anymore.
Pierce Bush is now one of 15(?!) GOP candidates vying for the Republican nomination in Texas’ 22nd Congressional District – described by the Houston Chronicle as the “nation’s biggest GOP primary field” even before he jumped in.
Perhaps that’s why Bush is already rolling over for President Trump – attempting to overlook the Bushes and Trumps’ famed “mutual loathing” and posturing himself as a “team player” for the Trump administration’s most reckless policies:
“When you compare the president to the alternatives that are running on the other side, there’s no question that I will support his agenda and his policies, and I look forward to being a team player in Washington.”
Bush’s GOP primary opponents aren’t buying it. Instead, they’ve cracked open the opposition research book and brought out the receipts. Like this one, for the Daily Caller: “Pierce Bush, GOP Congressional Candidate And H.W.’s Grandson, Marched In Anti-Trump Protest In 2017”
Conservative Brazoria County Judge Greg Hill – who once spoke out against interracial marriage – welcomed Pierce to the race with this written raspberry:
“While I have great respect for the Bush family, I have strong doubts about any candidate who would try to parachute into our district and buy this seat. […] The stakes are too high to give our vote and our voice to an unproven candidate who has never even spent a night in Brazoria or Fort Bend Counties.”
And conservative big spender Kathaleen “Build the Wall” Wall retweeted a Texas hardline conservative activist blasting Bush as intellectually dishonest, “a Democrat” and a “grifter.”
So, Pierce Bush as a “team player” for Team Trump?
To conservatives, it strains credulity. To general election voters, it’s toxic.
To us, it just hurts to read.
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