The final battle lines have been drawn, and the two leading presidential candidates are raking in the last bits of support they can muster.
The more surprising of those elements ore the ones who reach across the political aisle and pick up the torch for a candidate that violates their political history.
Such was the case with former Republican President George W. Bush's daughter, Barbara Pierce Bush.
Barbara, named for her grandmother, and first lady in the first Bush administration under George H.W. Bush, is now stumping for Vice President Kamala Harris.
“It was inspiring to join friends and meet voters with the Harris-Walz campaign in Pennsylvania this weekend," Pierce Bush said, according to Breitbart News.
"I’m hopeful they’ll move our country forward and protect women’s rights,” the former first daughter and first granddaughter went on.
Bush’s paternal grandfather, George H.W. Bush, sat in the oval office from 1989 to 1993, and her father, George W. Bush was president from 2000-2008.
Pierce Bush, 42, one of the twin daughters of the 43rd president, describes herself as an independent and does not fully identify with either major party, despite her Republican family background.
Also in 2017, Pierce Bush, a mother of two, expressed her support for Planned Parenthood at a fundraiser.
“I am proud to stand with Planned Parenthood not only because women, regardless of where they are from, deserve to live dignified, healthy lives, [but] … because it’s a really good investment,” she said at the time, per The Texas Tribune.
“We know that when women are healthy, their families and their children are healthier, too.”
She has also defied Republican Party orthodoxy on abortion and same-sex marriage, as has her mother, former First Lady Laura Bush. In the 2024 cycle, both George W. and Laura Bush have declined to endorse.
First Lady Barbara Bush has a long-standing animosity against Republican contender Donald Trump and had also broken with the GOP on abortion, as all first ladies of the Republican party since Roe v. Wade had done.
Furthermore, former Vice President Dick Cheney has endorsed Harris, and his daughter, former Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), has consistently advocated for Harris during the campaign.
During the 2016 Republican primary, George W. Bush's brother, former Florida GOP Gov. Jeb Bush, famously engaged in a contentious debate with the real estate magnate.
However, George P. Bush, Jeb's eldest son, had expressed his admiration for Trump during his unsuccessful campaign for Texas attorney general in 2022.
