WASHINGTON — When Kamala Harris accepted her party’s presidential nomination at the Democratic convention last month, several former presidents, vice presidents and nominees for those positions rallied in a show of public support for her bid for the White House.
Barack Obama. Bill Clinton. Hillary Clinton. Late. Tim Kaine (D-Va.). President Joe Biden, who even dropped his re-election bid to unite not only Democrats but Americans.
And on Donald Trump’s side? Which former Republican presidents, vice presidents and nominees are lining up behind him?
We didn’t see any of them speak in support of him at the GOP convention in July, but they’re certainly out there.
Here, presented for the first time, is an exhaustive list of the former Republican presidents, vice presidents and nominees for those positions who have publicly said they will vote for Trump in November:
1. Sarah Palin.
That’s all. That’s the whole list.
The 2008 Republican Vice Presidential Candidate confirmed his support for Trump in March 2023.
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he is “absolutely not” voting for Trump. It’s not former vice president either Dick Cheneyformer vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryanor, presumably, former Vice President Dan Quaylewho helped prevent Trump from stealing the 2020 election. Trump’s own former vice president, Mike Pencelike Trump almost was killed on January 6, 2021, said “it should come as no surprise” that he will not endorse Trump.
Former Republican President George W. Bush has not said whether he is voting for Trump, but in 2020 he reportedly said he would not support his re-election.
Bush did not receive a positive response to Trump’s 2016 inaugural address, in which Trump described the country as a dark wasteland of American carnage: “It was a weird piece of shit,” Bush reportedly said.