COLUMBIA, S.C. — As they witnessed President Joe Biden take the oath of office on Wednesday, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said former Republican President George W. Bush lauded him as a “saviour” for helping get Biden elected.
The South Carolina Democrat is largely credited with giving Biden the endorsement he needed to shoot to the top of 2020’s large Democratic field and win his party’s nomination.
Clyburn, on a call with reporters, said Bush told him, “you know, you’re the saviour, because if you had not nominated Joe Biden, we would not be having this transfer of power today.” He said Bush added that Biden was the only Democratic candidate he felt could have defeated President Donald Trump.
Bush, who has largely stayed out of politics since leaving the White House, chose “none of the above” in the 2016 presidential election but has not revealed how he voted in 2020.
In a statement issued following Biden’s victory, he wrote, “Though we have political differences, I know Joe Biden to be a good man” and added, “I offered him the same thing I offered Presidents Trump and Obama: my prayers for his success, and my pledge to help in any way I can.”
Bush spokesman Freddy Ford downplayed Clyburn’s remarks.
“Let’s not make this into more than it is,” he wrote on Twitter, adding that the former president was “saying Clyburn helped saved Biden’s nomination … nothing Biblical here.”
Clyburn’s pivotal endorsement before South Carolina’s Democratic primary seemed to have brought Biden’s candidacy back from the brink following lacklustre performances in other early states. It was an awaited signal for many Black voters that Biden would be the candidate to stand up for their interests.
Biden won South Carolina by nearly 30 points, subsequently bested chief rival Bernie Sanders on Super Tuesday and bumped rivals Tom Steyer, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Mike Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren in one of the more muscular comebacks in presidential campaign history.
Clyburn, South Carolina’s only Democratic representative in Congress, is the dean of the state’s Democrats and the third-ranking member of the U.S. House.
Clyburn said that his backing of Biden also came up Wednesday during conversations with former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the party’s 2016 nominee.
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The faces and the names of the parties in power change, but the mutually agreeed establishment control remains the same, who will get into bed with the devil if it keeps they and thier families rich and ensures their rotating turn in power. It’s mucical chairs and it’s always THE PEOPLE left standing with no safe place to sit. Former CIA director Brennann turned CNN commentator obvious studied under George Sr. and knows where the power really lies.
Well, I think Trump saved the republican party from the useless Bush administration.
Is it worth savings? They Republican good old boy network sounds and acts like Democrats. They don’t have to reach very far to reach across the aisle. Does the name Colin Powell or John McCain ring a bell. With Republicans like them who needs Democrats? Most of them are Republican with a silent D behind their name. What do they stand for? Nothing Who do they represent? No one
The government gets bigger and they all get fatter as they siphon off the wealth of this country into their own pockets.
DID he really ‘save it’?? FROM all i see, no. ITS BEYOND Saving.
Bush was afraid he wouldn’t get an invitation to the swamper’s Ball. Bush knows who he wants to spend time with. Its not the down home “joe” average the people that elected him. No, Its the people that called him names and demanded he be tried as war criminals. Now that’s what I call a real friend ship. Don’t you think deep down inside Clyburn despises Bush, laughs at him and thinks he is a fool. Don’t all these people stab each other in the back if they get the chance? There’s no real respect.
” and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!’ said President George W. Bush. They did when George called them up for an invitation to the balls.
Is CNN the place all journalism students that flunk out go to get a job. As stupid as Brennan is, he still appears to be too smart for CNN. Don’t you have to be totally lobotomized to get a permanent job there?
The Bushes are a disgrace. The New World Order, open borders globalist Bushes, who want to Make America Last Again. Give me an airsick bag. The Bushes should move out of Texas and move to California or New York. Traitors!
NWO G. Bush and pere are not Republicans as they claimed. Where did they make their fortunes? What secrets were with-held about the (3) Trade Center controlled demolitions?
The Government has more secrets than there are grains of sand on all the beaches in the world. It not to protect national security either. Its to hid and protect their lying butt from the electorate.
They are still upset that “Jeb” did not get his turn as Pres.
They are even more disappointed that Hillary didn’t get her turn.
And “W” just guaranteed he never will!
I will NEVER vote for these Establishment GOP candidates (or financially support the GOP) again!
I don’t care if the Democrats are in control of turning our country into a Communist Cesspool (they’re well on their way) – if it means the like of the Bush family NEVER are in a position of power again!
Dittos for Mitch McConnell and the REST of the swamp dwelling RINOs!
You are ALL Persona Non Grata to me!
If Trump wants to start a Patriot Party (suggested color for the political map: Red, White and Blue [stripes]), then I’m all in!
It will be a well deserved RUDE wake-up call for the Establishment GOP (the Never Trumpers) to see how TINY *THEIR* BASE is!
Good luck winning elections WITHOUT the Tea Party/Trump Supporters!
AND its a combo of those two things, which is WHY THE ENTIRE Establishment, worked so hard to get Trump out.. HE DENIED THEIR hand selected, successor.. QUEEN HILLARY the first.
His contempt for the average working man and Republican voter is leaking out. Just like the Hollywood crowd that thinks we’re all back slappin’, beer drinkin’ hillbillys making moon shine in our backyard or like “lets make a deal” game-show contestants and illiterate rubes.
I’d be happy, if 99.999% of PERVY wood, got swallowed up by the earth, after a 9,95 earthquake struck the san andreas..
Looks like Bush is just another RINO who would rather see the country go down hill under Biden than keep us moving forward under Trump. These never Trumpers need to get over it and work to make America a better place.
IMO HE has always been a rino.. TRUMP Just made him come out of the closet.
I hope PRESIDENT TRUMP just takes control of the current party, BOOT THE RINOS and INSTALL CONSERVATIVES in Leadership positions!
The current ‘old guard’ is extremely weak, and the “Trump Wing” has well over 75 million VOTERS.
Call it “THE TRUMPLICAN PARTY” for a few elections until the Voters KNOW the old guard is gone, and call it a day!
FORCE the ‘moderates’ to run as independents or beg the (d) for places in their group.
Any ‘moderates’ that suddenly ‘come to Jesus’ WILL NOT BE WELCOMED BACK!
Their beliefs flip when the winds change.
100% CONSERVATIVE 100% of the time!
Bush is just another big government former president that thankfully can’t run again. With his support of Biden drops him to the bottom of my list of competent Republican presidents.
Bush drove us down the road toward the ditch. Obama drove us into the ditch and buried the car. Trump got the car out of the ditch and had it restored. Biden has already driven back into the ditch and its only DAY ONE. And the idiot Bush sees Clyburn as a savior.
Bush was and is a Two-Face Coward, He needs to crawl into a Hole and pull it Shut.
The swamp Democrats and republicans are the same. Trump was different and they got rid of him because he didn’t play the swamp game. Without the Chinese released Covid virus, Trump would have won in a landslide. Biden is in bed with the Chinese and now they own us. The media is as dangerous to American freedom as the Communists in are own government.
Trump DID win by a landslide but the liars who corrupted the election were covered by the liars in the media who were covered by the liars in government who are empowered by the liars with billions to spend. The “fix” was in. The liars won even though We, the People voted by a huge majority for Trump.
Biden is NOT the president. His handlers will soon dispose of him and Comma la Harris will take power. This will make it “necessary” for Hillary or Bernie to become VP and the People’s Republic of America will be born in full cooperation with China, Russia, North Korea, and other horrific communist dictatorships.
They brought in 25,000 NG because they are afraid of “the people” they cheated. They know the election was sham and a lie. If they were so confident the election was fair they would not fear the retribution of the voters.
Swamp fills in.
More pythons breeding.
I can’t believe I actually supported THIS IDIOT!!! I guess he never got over Candidate Trump shredding the legitimacy of his little brother Jeb. He’ll just go down as another member of the Deep State Swamp. Good Riddance W!!
IT was either him, or Gore the bore.. Kerry, the Wuss, or Dukasis, the Bupkiss..
GW Bush is a globalist traitor. Enjoyed seeing President Trump smoke his pathetic little brother…
well it takes an idiot tp praise another idiot and clyburn is a idiot rubber stamp for the commies.
The Bush family is a VERY VINDICTIVE one ! They never forgave Trump, for beating little brother Jeb. The truth is that Trump was 100% better a President, than Jeb would have ever been. The fact that George would support Joe Biden, a demented, corrupt man, that has done NOTHING in 47 Years, over a member of HIS Party that has done GREAT things for America over the last 4 years, really DISGUSTS me ! I have lost every drop of my respect for THIS family !
as to the entire bush family..
There are no words that express the TRUE DEPTHS OF DISGUST that MOST HONEST AMERICANS feel for them.
I hope NO OTHER Bush, ever gets even past the PRIMARY stage of any election.. TILL THE END OF TIME.
Yet another Commie tool. The only reason I voted for this dipwad was to keep ALGORE out of the White House. Talk about dumb and dumber.
“If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.”
–Joseph Sobran
There was one, and only one, savior.
There is one, and only one, savior.
There will be one, and only one, savior.
His name is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Messiah, the Creator of the Universe.
(He has many more titles.)
No mere mortal is comparable to this one exclusive God-Man and any attempt to apply any of His titles to others is blasphemy.
Agree with you 1000%! Seems to me there’s a commandment that says “Thou salt have no other gods before me.” W was always claiming to be a Christian, but I guess he forgot about that one. He has a lot in common with Pelosi and Biden who seem to forget what their Catholic faith is all about but are always saying they are good Catholics. Maybe W should get the same treatment from his faith that Biden and Pelosi received from theirs-they were kicked out!
Another member of the political elites that could not care less about America and her citizens but rather on the holding of power and the ability to make money from that. And, for the record Mr. Bush, Biden wasn’t elected by the people. Rather, he was installed by the use of questionable and illegal changes in laws and in outright fraudulent elections.
Clyburn said former Republican President George W. Bush lauded him as a “saviour” for helping get Biden elected
Jorge always was a piece of Schiff. The fact that he’s not ashamed of his disgraceful behavior speaks volumes as to his treason and betrayal.
In 2008 Obama set a record for the most votes ever cast for a presidential candidate, 69.5 million
This record stood for 12 years until Biden smashed through it with 81 million and he did it from his basement
When he actually did campaign the number of people who showed up to listen to him could be counted on one hand
It is unlikely that with a billion minds working, day and night, to crack the formula, so as to repeat it, of how it was done, without cheating, could find how do it in a thousand years.
In fact, the odds of getting 99.4% of the vote out of a count of 470,000 ballots is a number greater than the 13.4 billion age of the universe and all the space within it, meaning it is impossible.
Yet, we have politicians from both parties who swear up and down it was all legal and above board
This is the contempt in which they hold the American voter, as someone dumber than them, then will give an inaugural address of saving democracy, apparently by excluding the voice of the people.
You do not need 26,000 military troops for an inauguration if you have the support of the people
Don’t believe Bill Barr? There are very few Republicans that have any integrity or honesty. The ones that are honest and oppose the Democrap **** they are attacked by the swamp Dwelling Republicans. That’s why they hated T-Party candidates. Instead of welcoming them to the “party” they tried to purge them. If the Democrats, the media and the Republicans are against someone, it means they are too honest to be in Washington. They’re dirty cops on the take.
I wouldn’t believe barr, IF my life depended on it.
George W. never lived in need, never worried about paying his mortgage, insurance, vacations like most of us. Clyburn, if he ever worried about such things has long since got past worrying, as he has been, like all long term politicians, eating at the big people’s table….enjoying the fruits of our labor. What George should have done instead of congratulating Clyburn, was apologize to those of us who make all the goodies all the current and former Presidents, and politicians amass, possible. Without us, they actually might remember they supposedly work for us.
The Bushes should get out of texas and head to liberal country like California and New York.
PITY Texans, CAN’T EXILE them..
Remember when the Dixie Chicks nearly ruined their carrier for being “ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas,” while speaking of George W? Where is Bush’s loyalty to those Republicans who defended him? I was pretty much done with him after the 2016 election but his willingness to climb into the sewer with the Clintons and Biden drove in that final nail for me.
The Republican Party is finished,
The minute President Trump announces a new Party those who have not quit supporting the extremely corrupt RINO party will leave.
The thought of even trying to salvage the Republican party is a joke…..We have tried for many years and it is still a harbor for lying,corrupt,power hungry elitist who could care less about our country or the people they work for.
At this point we need to neuter the Republican party permanently, They will continue their same behaviour of corruption until they are stripped of power.
George Bush is one of many NWO traitors running the Republican party!
George does not care about the Republican voters or the American people..How else could he send all of those soldiers to die in the middle east when there should not have been a war in the first place.
The Trump doctrine is what we need.
George Bush was never a very smart man. If fact he was a buffoon.
I voted for W and as a fifer I performed at both of his inaugurals and as a greeter for at least 15 of his events. I used to have a picture of him on my wall , but I tossed it . Trump showed America that much good can be accomplished by a President who works at it. I still respect W for his talk at the World Trade Center. But , President Trump attacked terrorists who attacked us with aimed , tight and focused attacks. He also worked more than any recent president to make America Great Again. W can make as many stupid comments as he wants but the DEMS stole this election and all they care about is POWER. W is still angry that Trump whupped on his little brother.
Trump showed them all what could be done if you try. Trump showed them all-up and exposed them for the frauds and cheaters they are. That’s what really pissed both parties off. How dare he get something done without political graft. How dare he tell the American people the truth. They had to put a stop to this immediately. They really were afraid Trump would investigate Hillary Clintons foundation, her emails and Benghazi. The Deep State sprang into action to protect one of there own. Who knows how many political dominoes might fall if word ever got out. Barr solidified the Deep State by making sure no one was held to account. He tried to make everyone believe he was going to do something about the coup. But he didn’t. He just ran out the clock and let the witch hunters back on the playing field.
George: another giant mistake America has made. Remember he appointed Smiling John Roberts. The worst pick in history. He knew what he was all along.
Bush didn’t waste anytime shaking hands with Ted Kennedy and Roberts didn’t waste any time in stinking up the court. The stench from the bench is overwhelming..