Fighting to stay in office, George P. Bush — the last of the Bush family still on the ballot — greeted a small outdoor crowd at an Austin brewery sounding like most Republicans running in Texas’ primary Tuesday.
He’ll secure the border. He’ll support police. He didn’t mention Donald Trump, but his campaign passed out leaflets showing him with the former president: the man who mocked Bush’s father, shoved aside the Bushes as the GOP’s standard-bearer and isn’t endorsing him for Texas attorney general.
It’s a heated race that, if Bush doesn’t win, will take America’s most enduring political family out of elected office for one of the few times in the last 50 years.
“It’s distinguishing myself as opposed to just being known as a Bush,” he said afterward. “And that’s my challenge. That’s on me.”
