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John Ellis Bush likely spoke for a lot of Americans over the weekend.<\/p>\n

He doesn’t like Donald J. Trump and he won’t vote for him for president. Nor does he trust Hillary Rodham Clinton, so she won’t get his vote, either.<\/p>\n

Bush — aka “Jeb” — is quite likely going to leave the top of his ballot blank when the time comes for him to vote.<\/p>\n

He said it “breaks my heart” that he cannot support the Republican Party nominee, Trump. But he and the presumptive GOP nominee have some history that Bush cannot set aside.<\/p>\n

Bush told MSBNC’s Nicolle Wallace — a former communications director for President George W.\u00a0 Bush — that Trump has conducted what amounts to a successful mutiny of the Republican Party. He praises the real estate mogul\/TV celebrity for winning the party nomination fair and square. Trump, though, did it by tapping into\u00a0a voter sentiment\u00a0that none of the other GOP candidates — including Jeb Bush — could locate.<\/p>\n

This makes me think my earlier prediction of a potentially record-low-turnout election might not be too far off the mark.<\/p>\n

The current record belongs to the 1996 contest that saw President Bill Clinton re-elected over Bob Dole and Ross Perot with just a 49 percent turnout of eligible voters.<\/p>\n

Now we have polling data that tell us Hillary Clinton and Trump are profoundly disliked by most voters. FBI Director James Comey’s stunning critique of Clinton’s handling of classified information on her personal e-mail server has only heightened voters’ mistrust of her … and to think that the director then said he wouldn’t recommend criminal charges be brought against her!<\/em><\/p>\n

As for Trump, well, I won’t weigh in here. You know how much I despise that guy.<\/p>\n

Jeb Bush won’t attend the GOP convention. Neither will his brother and father — two former presidents. Nor will Mitt Romney or John McCain, the party’s two most recent presidential nominee.<\/p>\n

Oh, and the governor of the state where the convention will take place? Ohio Gov. John Kasich, another former Republican presidential candidate, won’t darken the door at the Cleveland arena where delegates are going to nominate Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Let’s face the daunting reality that a lot of Americans just might follow Jeb’s lead and stay home.<\/p>\n\n

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John Ellis Bush likely spoke for a lot of Americans over the weekend. He doesn’t like Donald J. Trump and he won’t vote for him for president. Nor does he trust Hillary Rodham Clinton, so she won’t get his vote, either. Bush — aka “Jeb” — is quite likely going to leave the top of … Continue reading Get ready for record low turnout … possibly<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[631,682,1424,1899,5647,2139,2429,2537,2546,3101,3155,6412,4029],"class_list":["post-15855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-bill-clinton","tag-bob-dole","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-w-bush","tag-gop-convention","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-jeb-bush","tag-john-kasich","tag-john-mccain","tag-mitt-romney","tag-msnbc","tag-nicolle-wallace","tag-ross-perot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15858,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15855\/revisions\/15858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}