When asked by NBC News whether he or his wife, Laura Bush, would endorse a candidate or say how they would vote, Bush’s office flatly stated “no.”

“President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago,” the office added.

The comments from Bush’s office come one day after former Vice President Dick Cheney, who served under Bush in that capacity from 2001 to 2009, said in a statement that he will vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in November.

“In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again. … That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” he said.

Following that announcement, former President Donald Trump blasted Cheney as an “irrelevant RINO,” or “Republican in name only,” in a post on Truth Social.

This is not the first time Bush has withheld an endorsement in a presidential race. In 2016, Bush did not vote for either Trump or Hillary Clinton, while in 2020, he wrote in former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for president. However, he endorsed John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012.