George W. Bush to appear at fundraiser for Trump nemesis Kemp

The fundraiser, at the home of real estate developer Harlan Crow, lists Bush as a “special guest,” according to a copy of the invitation obtained by POLITICO.

Bush’s intervention in the Georgia primary underscores longstanding tensions between Trump and the Bush family — and the traditionalist wing of the Republican Party that Bush represents. Bush last year appeared at a fundraiser for Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), and he gave money to Cheney and Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Ala.) reelection campaigns, supporting two Republicans who backed impeaching Trump…

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Bush, while largely reluctant to criticize Trump directly, implicitly did so last year, when he lamented a modern-day GOP that he said had become “isolationist, protectionist, and to a certain extent, nativist.”

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