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He remains focused on the future.

“We should be a little more optimistic and proud of what we have,” he said. “But you got to earn it. I’m frustrated that the issues we have, the problems we have are getting worse because we’re not solving for them.”

While ex-President Donald Trump and some of his supporters keep falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen, Bush indicated it’s time to look forward.

“President Trump did far better than what people expected,” Bush said. “He could have easily won, but he didn’t. And, frankly, President Biden won the election for a whole set of reasons that he immediately ignored.”

Bush said the mandate Biden received “was he was going to bring some normalcy. He was going to bring people together. His experience in the Senate, you know, would compel people to come together on the things they agreed on to build on that at least to start the kind of re-weaving the web of civility and consensus building.”

Bush added that Biden has “done none of that.”