George Bush says he wrote in Condoleezza Rice for president in 2020 ballot

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George Bush claims that he wrote Condoleezza Rice in for President in the 2020 ballot last year.

In a recent interview with People magazine, the former President of the United States revealed that he did not vote for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden in the 2020 Presidential Election.

Instead, Bush stated that he had cast his ballot for Condoleezza Rice, who served as his secretary of state during his second term in office, from 2005 to 2009.

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Per People, Bush stated: "She knows it. But she told me she would refuse to accept the office."

In the interview in question, Bush also clarified his previous criticism of the Republican Party, made during a recent appearance on TODAY, in which he referred to it as "isolationist, protectionist and, to a certain extent, nativist."

Bush has now clarified what he meant, saying:

"Really what I should have said — there's loud voices who are isolationists, protectionists and nativists, something, by the way, I talked about when I was president.

"My concerns [are] about those -isms. but I painted with too broad a brush ... because by saying what I said, it excluded a lot of Republicans who believe we can fix the problem."

The former POTUS also spoke on a number of other subjects, including condemning the January Capitol riots in Washington D.C., in which a group of violent protesters interrupted the congressional affirmation of Joe Biden's victory in the election.

He also touched upon Donald Trump's controversial border wall separating the southern United States and Mexico.

While Bush wasn't against the policy entirely, he did insist that border issues surrounding illegal immigration would be impossible to solve without comprehensive reform and well-trained border agents.

One of these suggestions was the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a policy that would allow migrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to be granted a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and then become eligible for work permits.

Recipients of this policy are called "Dreamers", and Bush pointed out that past attempts at a compromise on immigration reform have included proposals to grant these individuals a more permanent status in the United States.

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