Jeb Bush’s top adviser leaves GOP over Donald Trump

Bradshaw told CNN that while she had seen Trump as a “bigot” and “misogynist” throughout the race, Trump’s latest attacks against the Khan family who lost their son in the Iraq war in 2004, was just another reminder of why she couldn’t back him.

Bradshaw helped steer Bush’s presidential campaign, which spent about $150 million before fizzling without winning a single state. “Donald Trump can not be elected president”, Bradshaw told CNN.

“This is so incredibly disrespectful of a family that endured the ultimate sacrifice for our country”, Bush said in a tweet, linking to a New York Times story that quoted Trump suggesting in an interview that Khan’s mother Ghazala Khan wasn’t “allowed to have anything to say”.

After years of working with the Bush family and helping author the Republican Party’s autopsy report, Bradshaw told CNN she could no longer look her children in the eye and support the Republican candidate this cycle. Bradshaw is a high-profile defection, but is she effectively alone?

While she told CNN she wasn’t sure who she would vote for in November, she said if the race in Florida is close she “will vote for Hillary Clinton”.

Every family who loses a loved one in service to our country or who has a family member who serves in the military should be honored, regardless of their political views. She’s hardly a household name, and her decision to speak out against her party’s nominee doesn’t rise almost to the level of similar decisions from public figures like Mitt Romney, Illinois. Sen.

A prominent Jeb Bush aide has said she might vote for Hillary Clinton come November. “Lindsay Graham and Jeb Bush spoke out early and consistently – but most did not, fearful of offending that segment of the party or positioning themselves for future office”, she said in her email.

Donald Trump has done it again. “A president can’t tear down Hispanics, or mock someone who is disabled, or use symbols in campaign literature that Jewish voters understandably find offensive”. She said she had worked hard to make the party “a place where all would feel welcome”, but Trump has taken the GOP in a different direction.