Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R)
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R)

‘There is no room in our tent for despicable bigotries like racism, misogyny or anti-Semitism’

Former Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush wrote an editorial in The Wall Street Journal on Friday outlining the way forward for the party in light of Donald Trump’s election.

The former Florida governor wrote that Trump, who beat out more than a dozen established Republicans in the party’s primary, “successfully tapped into the anger and deep distrust that voters feel toward Washington.”

“These voters believe the American dream is increasingly out of reach,” Bush wrote. “They believe our system is skewed in favour of the powerful and the connected. They believe that the politicians elected to right these wrongs have only made them worse. And they overwhelmingly voted for Mr. Trump, giving him a hard-won victory.

Read the story in The Business Insider.