Jeb Bush: Republican Party will be ‘yearning for new leadership’ in 2024

Former Florida governor and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said he believes that the Republican Party will be “yearning for a new generation of leaders” in the 2024 presidential election.  

Bush, brother, and son to two former US presidents, said in an interview on Thursday that there will be room in the Republican base for candidates other than former President Donald Trump in the next US presidential election, according to The Hill.  

Trump has repeatedly hinted that he plans to launch a third bid for the White House and is the most favorite Republican candidate for 2024 according to polls. Trump was credited to ruin the candidacy of Bush.

Bush was the Republican Party’s favorite presidential nominee in 2016 but Trump had conducted a controlled demolition of his candidacy over the Bush family’s role in the 9/11 atrocity.

Trump blamed Jeb’s brother, former US President George W. Bush, for the collapse of the World Trade Center and the death of 3,000 Americans in New York on September 11, 2001.

“The World Trade Center came down during your brother’s reign, remember that,” Trump said, after Jeb declared that he was “sick and tired of him going after my family.”

Bush said on Thursday he expects the Republican Party will want candidates who are “focused on the future” and not the “grievances of the past.”

“Whether or not the former president runs or not, I have no clue. He’ll be formidable, but there’ll be other candidates that will be able to make their case for sure,” Bush said.

Bush was commenting on a statement by former Vice President Mike Pence made on Wednesday at an event at Georgetown University, where he said he might be considering running in 2024.

Bush said he his guess is that Pence will run, adding that Pence is well-qualified for office.

Bush ran in the 2016 presidential election and was considered a top contender for the Republican nomination at the start of the election cycle, but his polling numbers gradually dropped as Trump’s rose.

Bush dropped out after a disappointing showing in South Carolina's Republican primary and refused to endorse Trump after he became the apparent Republican nominee that year.

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“Is Donald Trump responsible for the destruction of Jeb Bush’s candidacy for the White House?" asked Dr. Kevin Barrett, editor of We Are Not Charlie Hebdo and scholar of Arabic and Islamic studies.

“I think the short answer to that is: Yes, he is responsible. Donald Trump has conducted a controlled demolition of the candidacy of Jeb Bush. It’s been very clear from the get-go that Trump saw that the weakness of Jeb Bush was his complicity in the atrocities of September 11, 2001, and the wars that those atrocities were designed to trigger,” he told Press TV then.

“These wars have been a disaster for the United States. The majority of the American people understand that the presidency of George W. Bush was perhaps the biggest catastrophe ever to hit the United States in its history, and that’s saying something.”

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