George W. Bush agreed that Donald Trump had “the right to demand recounts and to initiate legal proceedings.”
Washington:
Former US President George W. Bush offered his “warm congratulations” to President-elect Joe Biden, calling the Democrat “a good man, who has earned his chance to lead and unify our country.”
The two-term Republican, in a statement released by his presidential center in Dallas, also congratulated the loser Donald Trump for his “extraordinary political achievement” by winning 70 million votes.
Bush’s statement made him one of the most prominent Republicans in the country to recognize Biden’s victory, said on Saturday and offer his congratulations.
His brother Jeb Bush – the former Florida governor who himself had aspired to the presidency until Trump won the party’s nomination in 2016 – earlier sent his own congratulations to Biden.
“I will pray for you and your success. Now is the time to heal deep wounds. Many are counting on you to lead the way,”
Republican Senators Mitt Romney of Utah and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska also praised Biden, while many other Republican officials are calling this premature, saying not all votes have been counted yet and all challenges have not been counted. ‘have not been resolved.
Former President Bush agreed that Trump has “the right to demand recounts and to initiate legal proceedings.”
But he added: “The American people can be confident that this election was fundamentally fair, its integrity will be maintained and its outcome is clear.”
Sounding a message of unity that echoed Biden’s own words, Bush added, “We must unite for the sake of our families and our neighbors, and for our nation and its future.
“There is no problem that will not yield to the united will of a free people.”
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