Nov. 3, 2024, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris 2024 Presidential Election News

Former President Bill Clinton defended the decision by his successor, former President George W. Bush, to not issue an endorsement in Tuesday’s presidential election.

“First of all, he’s spoken up, I think, more than he’s gotten credit for, and he takes every opportunity that I’ve seen to talk about how important immigration is and how we can’t survive without it,” Clinton told CNN from his campaign bus.

Clinton said Bush likes Democrat Colin Allred, a Texas congressman representing where Bush lives who is challenging Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, for his Senate seat.

“Oh, yeah. He’ll tell anybody that, that he’s a good guy,” Clinton said of Bush’s thoughts about Allred.

Bush congratulated Allred on his 2018 win in his House race, but the former president was not involved in the Senate race, according to CNN.

“He also knows, beginning with our relationship, it’s very different when you’re out of political life, when there is no competition, no consequence,” Clinton told the outlet. “And I think he believes that since he was a proud Republican all those years, it’s enough for him to make clear what he believes with all this, without giving up the party he’s been with all his life.”

Someone close to Bush was asked about Clinton’s comments and told the outlet that Bush “has indeed moved on from presidential politics, but he has been working quietly and diligently to keep the Senate in GOP control.”

This comes after former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said recently that she believes “it’s time” for Bush to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris. Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney who served under Bush. have endorsed Harris for president.

Bush’s daughter, Barbara, has also endorsed Harris, but the former president and his wife, Laura, have said they have no plans to endorse any presidential candidate.