George P. Bush Tells Texas GOP to Back Trump

*I say it’s a Texas thing, and that’s all I’m saying. It’s a quick read, but that’s about all there is to it. VL

By Madeline Conway and John Reynolds, The Texas Tribune (1 minute read)

Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush seems to have changed his tune on Donald Trump, urging fellow state Republicans to support the party’s nominee for president even though he had previously held out on endorsing him.

“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,” Bush said to state Republican activists on Saturday, addressing them as Texas GOP’s victory chairman, the Tribune’s Patrick Svitek reports.

“Bush had been criticized for taking the role without backing the party’s presidential nominee,” Svitek writes. “At least until Saturday, Bush had been one of the most prominent elected officials in Texas withholding his support for Trump. A spokesman for Bush did not respond Sunday afternoon to messages seeking additional detail on his current position on Trump.”

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, meanwhile, said in a radio interview last week that he is working with the Trump campaign on an agriculture team, Madeline Conway reports in the Tribune.

This article was originally published in the Texas Tribune.

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