Ex-Presidents 'will not endorse' Trump

The local media has been informed that former United States presidents, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush will not endorse Donald Trump as a candidate for President.

For the past five years, former President Bush had endorsed Republicans in all the previous elections. But now, the Republicans finds it a challenge to "define their support, or lack thereof," for Trump.

As all his opponents have dropped out, Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee at present.

Earlier this year, both the Bush men had campaigned for the third Bush, the former Florida Governor, Jeb Bush. But he left the race in February.

 Jim McGrath, a spokesman for George HW Bush told the Guardian: "At age 91, President Bush is retired from politics. He naturally did a few things to help Jeb, but those were the 'exceptions that proved the rule'."

Both of them had also supported other Republican presidential nominees---John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012.

Even though neither of them had launched a frontal attack on Trump or his policies, George W. Bush had hinted with veiled criticism when he was on a campaign for Jeb Bush. He said: "The strongest person usually isn't the loudest one in the room."

"I understand that Americans are angry and frustrated. But we do not need someone in the Oval Office who mirrors and inflames our anger and frustration," he told the South Carolina audience.

Trump had not spared words in attacking the two-term governor who he termed as "low-energy" and mocked him as "an embarrassment to his family".

Many Republicans are indecisive about their support. A few such as senators Dean Heller of Nevada and Ben Sasse of Nebraska are firm that they will not vote for Trump in November, while more senators such as senators Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Rob Portman of Ohio are clear that they will vote for him but not endorse him.

The heat against Trump is simmering. The Clinton campaign released a video Thursday that put up former Republican candidates attacking Trump, and some elected officials, party leaders and talk radio hosts refusing to back him in November.

In a poll released by CNN, the Democrat nominee, Hillary Clinton, is shown as leading over Trump by a margin of 54-41 in the general election.