Barbara Pierce Bush, one of former President George W. Bush’s daughters, has voiced her support for Vice President Kamala Harris. Though her father and her mother, Laura Bush, previously told NBC News that they have no plans to endorse a candidate for president, Barbara, 42, spent part of the weekend of October 26 campaigning for Harris, according to People.
Per People, Barbara said, “It was inspiring to join friends and meet voters with the Harris-Walz campaign in Pennsylvania this weekend.” Although she did not share many details in the statement provided to the publication, Barbara did include a couple of reasons why she supports Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
“I’m hopeful they’ll move our country forward and protect women’s rights,” Barbara Pierce Bush, who is the fraternal twin sister of Today anchor Jenna Bush Hager, shared in the statement. Barbara’s father, George W. Bush, ran as a Republican and was president from 2001 to 2009, but Barbara has said that she does not identify as a Republican. At the same time, when she spoke to People in 2010, she said she wouldn’t call herself a Democrat either.
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Barbara previously advocated for marriage equality and supported Planned Parenthood. In 2011, she spoke about marriage equality in a video with the Human Rights Campaign. “I am Barbara Bush, and I am a New Yorker for marriage equality,” she said at the time, per People. “New York is about fairness and equality. And everyone should have the right to marry the person that they love.”
She spoke at a rally for Planned Parenthood in 2017, in which she called Planned Parenthood “a one-stop shop for everything that has to do with women’s health and all social problems that don’t have to do with women’s health.” While her parents do not plan on publicly endorsing a candidate, George W. Bush’s office told NBC News that “President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago.”
Barbara joins Bush’s former vice president, Dick Cheney, and his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney, in supporting Kamala Harris.
On X, Liz Cheney, 58, praised Barbara Bush for supporting the Harris campaign. “Thank you, Barbara Bush, for standing for truth, decency, and freedom,” she wrote on the platform.
