George W. Bush's Daughter Barbara Breaks Silence on Election to Campaign for Kamala Harris (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Barbara Pierce Bush, the daughter of former PresidentGeorge W. Bushand granddaughter of former PresidentGeorge H.W. Bush, spent part of her weekend in Pennsylvania campaigning for Vice PresidentKamala Harriswith just days to go before the2024 presidential election.

“It was inspiring to join friends and meet voters with the Harris-Walzcampaign in Pennsylvania this weekend,” Barbara, 42, shares in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE on Tuesday, Oct. 29. “I’m hopeful they’ll move our country forward and protect women’s rights.”

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In March 2017,Barbara rallied for Planned Parenthood, speaking at a fundraiser for the women’s health nonprofit.

“I am proud to stand with Planned Parenthood not only because women, regardless of where they are from, deserve to live dignified, healthy lives, [but] … because it’s a really good investment,” she said at the event, according toThe Texas Tribune. “We know that when women are healthy, their families and their children are healthier, too.”

Barbara, now amother of two,told PEOPLE in 2010that she does not identify with either major political party, and has since been described as an independent.

Barbara Bush (left); Kamala Harris (right).Ben Gabbe/Getty; Andrew Harnik/Getty

Ben Gabbe/Getty; Andrew Harnik/Getty

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Harris also earnedthe endorsement of Susan Ford Bales, the daughter of another former Republican president — the lateGerald Ford. Bales' father took office after Richard Nixon resigned in the aftermath of Watergate in 1974.

“America cannot regress back to a divisive paradigm of loathing toward one another and disdain for our Constitution,” Bales wrote on Oct. 21. “We witnessed on January 6 the horrors of what that looks like, and we can never allow a repeat of that tragedy.”

Barbara Pierce Bush and Jenna Bush Hager.Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty

Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty

Barbara is a nonprofit leader and author with a master’s in public administration from Harvard University. In 2009, she co-founded Global Health Corps, an organization aiming to raise up new generations of leaders who can tackle global health issues.

The former first daughterco-wrote a memoirin 2017 with her fraternal twin sister,Jenna Bush Hager, about their life in the spotlight.

In September, Jenna — who hostsToday with Hoda & Jennaon NBC—told PEOPLEthat Barbara inspired her to take leaps she may have otherwise not.

“I don’t think I’d have this job. I don’t know [that] I would’ve started this book club. She makes me feel brave and empowered, because she was my first audience,” Jenna said. “She was the first hand I held. And so I always felt supported, even when we were teens, and we threw shoes at each other’s head.”

source: people.com