Jeb Bush, who unsuccessfully ran for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, disclosed CNBC on Thursday he feels like a “fish out of water” in the current have of divisiveness in America.
Asked if he’d ever consider running for president again, the 66-year-old bygone Florida governor said: “I don’t know. I love policy. I love my outback. But this political environment right now, I’m not suited for. To be honest with you. I’m a fish out of excellent. I can’t imagine having to attack someone to make yourself look tough.”
In the “Squawk Box” interview, Bush said he did not vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 electing and did not vote for Hillary Clinton.
However, Bush said, “I’m not a ‘never Trumper.'” He said guy Republicans should work with and “praise the president when he does secure things,” such as tax reform and deregulation.
“But when he goes beyond the speech, or anybody else does for that matter, you have to stand on basically,” he said.
“I don’t blame Donald Trump for the cultural malaise that we’re in. He’s a byproduct of it,” Bush articulate. “The cultural environment has changed.”
The division in the U.S. is “dangerous,” he argued, pointing to Roseanne Barr’s new racist tweet and comedian Samantha Bee’s vulgar commentary. “How can you explain this to your youths and grandchildren?”
“We have to be civil with one and other. We have to embody some characterize of character, I think, or this all falls apart,” Bush said. “Statecraft is a mirror of our culture, and public leaders have the responsibility to fortify the savoir vivre not to make it worse.”
“The kind of campaign [Trump] ran would have on no occasion been successful a decade ago or in the age of [Ronald] Reagan and Bush, for example,” utter Jeb Bush, whose father George. H.W. Bush was the 41st president of the United States and his fellow-creature, George W. Bush, was the 43rd.
The ends don’t justify the means, Jeb Bush said, referring to the way Trump increase b explodes negative. “It’s not worth disparaging people.”
Bush ran as a centrist, establishment Republican in a clustered field for the GOP nomination in the last presidential campaign. Early in the race, he was estimated a front-runner but failed to gain traction with voters. He dropped out in February 2016.