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George P. Bush charts a Trumpian path
George P Bush hitching his wagon to Trump, who is more popular in TX than Bush's family. So which political dynasty do you think is worse? For me, it's the Trumps, no contest.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, Tex. — It’s candidate night in Hopkins County and the regional civic center is filled with Republicans sizing up candidates ahead of Tuesday’s primary election. On the stage, George P. Bush is arguing why Texans should make him the state’s next attorney general rather than the scandal-plagued Republican incumbent, Ken Paxton.
Bush carries the name of a family once revered in the state, but these days that is a heavy burden in Texas. His issue agenda owes less to his allegiance to his family than to former president Donald Trump.
Bush tells the audience he has twice traveled the length of the Texas border and vows to “finish the Trump wall.” He speaks about “massive voter fraud.” He promises to go after human traffickers and drug cartels and to take on district attorneys in the big cities, who he says are not on the side of law enforcement. He decries “the wholesale indoctrination of our children when it comes to critical race theory” in public schools.
Bush has supporters in the audience, but here in conservative East Texas, skepticism of anyone named Bush is apparent. Such is the challenge he faces as he tries to advance his political career in the era of Trump. As people file out of the civic center after more than three hours of presentations by an array of candidates, a woman who did not want to give her name offered a biting critique of the Bush family. “I thought they were Republicans,” she said with a tone of sarcasm.
Bush carries the name of a family once revered in the state, but these days that is a heavy burden in Texas. His issue agenda owes less to his allegiance to his family than to former president Donald Trump.
Bush tells the audience he has twice traveled the length of the Texas border and vows to “finish the Trump wall.” He speaks about “massive voter fraud.” He promises to go after human traffickers and drug cartels and to take on district attorneys in the big cities, who he says are not on the side of law enforcement. He decries “the wholesale indoctrination of our children when it comes to critical race theory” in public schools.
Bush has supporters in the audience, but here in conservative East Texas, skepticism of anyone named Bush is apparent. Such is the challenge he faces as he tries to advance his political career in the era of Trump. As people file out of the civic center after more than three hours of presentations by an array of candidates, a woman who did not want to give her name offered a biting critique of the Bush family. “I thought they were Republicans,” she said with a tone of sarcasm.
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