Nicole Wallace Calls on George W. Bush to Denounce Trump

Nicolle Wallace, who was a White House communications director in George W.Bush’s administration, called on Friday for Mr.

Bush to have a late-hour “change of heart” and speak out against former President Donald J.Trump.Speaking on her “Deadline: White House” program on MSNBC, Ms.

Wallace said Mr.Trump’s violent language about former Representative Liz Cheney had pushed her to publicly raise the question she gets “asked more than any other” off the set: “Where is George W.

Bush?”Ms.Cheney, a former congresswoman from Wyoming, has emerged as one of Mr.

Trump’s most prominent Republican critics, and she has campaigned extensively for his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.Her father, Dick Cheney, who served as Mr.

Bush’s vice president, has also said he would vote for Ms.Harris.On Thursday, Mr.

Trump criticized Ms.Cheney for her hawkish foreign policy views and said she should be put on a battlefield “with nine barrels shooting at her” — a remark that drew condemnations from a number of leaders.

On her program, Ms.Wallace seemed to be imploring her former boss to join that group.“These are the comments we’re talking about right now in the United States of America from someone running to hold the job he had,” Ms.

Wallace said.Mr.Bush’s daughter Barbara also supports Ms.

Harris and has knocked on doors for her in Pennsylvania.But Mr.Bush has ruled out endorsing in the presidential race, according to his office.

Ms.Wallace said she hoped both Mr.

Trump’s recent violent language and the endorsement of Ms.Harris by Mr.

Bush’s daughter might sway him.“We have a right to hope that those who have stood for freedom and celebrated those who have protected it might have a last-minute change of heart in the closing hours of this campaign,” Ms.Wallace said on her program.Ms.

Wallace said she had appealed directly to Mr.Bush’s office, and had been told that the former president would continue his silence.

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