http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/20/politi...ton/index.html
(cnn)former president george h.w. Bush said in a room of roughly 40 people monday that he would vote for hillary clinton in november, according to sources close to bush -- an extraordinary rebuke of his own party's nominee.
Representatives of the bush family are declining to publicly acknowledge the former president's decision. But sources close to bush tell cnn that he shared his plans with board members of the bipartisan points of light foundation during what he believed was a private gathering monday in kennebunkport, maine.
Bush did not make a formal announcement during the meeting, and it's not clear everyone in the room heard him, although multiple sources did.
His embrace of clinton represents a dramatic new chapter in the complicated three-decade-old relationship between the two most prominent families in american politics.
The former republican president's decision to vote for a democratic nominee is a stunning political move -- one that comes just 49 days from the election, and less than a week before clinton and donald trump square off in their first debate.
News of his support for clinton came first on facebook from a member of another prominent political family: The kennedys.