{"id":1911,"date":"2026-06-06T10:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2026-06-06T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:36:10","slug":"a-maine-gubernatorial-candidate-is-running-as-a-political-outsider-his-last-name-is-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1911","title":{"rendered":"A Maine gubernatorial candidate is running as a political outsider. His last name is Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div> <div>\n<button>\n<strong>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>Summary<\/span>\n<\/strong>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<\/button>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Jonathan Bush, nephew of former President George H.W. Bush, is running for governor of Maine as a political outsider.<\/li>\n<li>The crowded GOP primary on Tuesday will test whether the Bush brand still resonates with Republican voters in a party transformed by President Donald Trump.<\/li>\n<li>Bush is also not the only candidate with a famous political name running this cycle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            For the better part of four decades, a member of the Bush family held office somewhere in the United States, a run that seemed to end in 2023 when former Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush left office.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1899\">5 things to know about the Ebola outbreak<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            But Jonathan Bush, running for governor of Maine, hopes to restore the tradition.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The nephew of former President George H.W. Bush and cousin of former President George W. Bush is trying to break through a crowded GOP field in Tuesday\u2019s gubernatorial primary and put the state in play this fall.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n<span>EDITOR\u2019S NOTE:<\/span>\u00a0 Join John King at CNN\u2019s Magic Wall as he breaks down primary election results and takes your questions live on Tuesday night, starting at 8pm ET\/5pm PT.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            His family has a long, rich history in Maine, where generations have summered, practiced philanthropy, and put down roots. Pictures of Bushes adorn the walls of businesses in Kennebunkport, the seaside town that hosts the family compound; the promontory where it stands is called \u201cWalker\u2019s Point;\u201d and a major children\u2019s hospital in Portland is named after first lady Barbara Bush.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But in 2026, it\u2019s an open question whether the Bush name still has purchase with Republican voters in a party transformed by President Donald Trump. And the governor\u2019s race in Maine is one of several 2026 contests testing Americans\u2019 feelings toward political dynasties.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            For his part, Bush is confronting the question head-on.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI\u2019m Jonathan Bush,\u201d he says in an ad. \u201cNow hold on, I know what you\u2019re thinking \u2013 not another Bush. I get it. But hear me out: I might be different than what you\u2019re expecting. First, I\u2019m not low energy anything.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n<strong>An anchor or an asset? <\/strong>\n<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Steve Clemons, left, former Washington editor-at-large with The Atlantic, has a conversation with Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush at Pulse: The Atlantic Summit on Health Care in Boston on April 9, 2018.\" class=\"wp-image-1906\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4890abc1af0954da32cf86c12d6e21ac.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4890abc1af0954da32cf86c12d6e21ac.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4890abc1af0954da32cf86c12d6e21ac-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Steve Clemons, left, former Washington editor-at-large with The Atlantic, has a conversation with Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush at Pulse: The Atlantic Summit on Health Care in Boston on April 9, 2018.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Pat Greenhouse\/Boston Globe\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The biting reference to his cousin Jeb Bush\u2019s unsuccessful 2016 presidential campaign, which foundered against Donald Trump\u2019s anti-establishment mockery, reflects the challenge facing a Bush seeking office ten years later.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In an interview with CNN, Bush said the family name \u201cwas very much an anchor\u201d in the early days of his campaign.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cMainers don\u2019t want an insider right now, they\u2019ve got an allergy to somebody who\u2019s part of the system. They feel like the system has betrayed them. So, when they hear the name Bush, they imagine somebody who\u2019s sort of all wired up,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            So Bush, 57, is not running as the keeper of the family legacy. Instead, he\u2019s casting himself as an \u201can outsider\u201d who wants to disrupt healthcare, education and establishment politics, focusing on his private sector background in his pitch to voters.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Raised in Manhattan before relocating to Maine as an adult, Bush stresses that he\u2019s never lived in Texas, a family stronghold, nor worked in Washington, DC.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The father of seven launched his campaign in Belfast, a midcoast town where Athenahealth, the healthcare technology company he co-founded in 1997, once employed more than 900 people, and highlights he and his wife\u2019s deep family histories in the Pine Tree State.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related gallery\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"United States President George W. Bush announces his plan for jobs and economic growth at the Economic Club of Chicago. His plan features $674 billion in tax cuts and benefits. (Photo by Brooks Kraft LLC\/Corbis via Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-1907\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dba294dfe2d3fe56c7bcf5d9dfbe025d.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>United States President George W. Bush announces his plan for jobs and economic growth at the Economic Club of Chicago. His plan features $674 billion in tax cuts and benefits. (Photo by Brooks Kraft LLC\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Brooks Kraft\/Corbis Historical\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>George W. Bush: His life in pictures<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n          57 photos\n        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Bush argues that his personal story and his message, calling for a \u201cshakeup\u201d in Augusta\u2019s current Democratic administration, is resonating with voters. And polling has shown some momentum for Bush in the race\u2019s closing stretch as he\u2019s ramped up advertising; a survey from the University of New Hampshire in May found him climbing into second place, although still significantly behind frontrunner Bobby Charles.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But he\u2019s also contending with a Republican Party that has consolidated around Trump\u2019s Make America Great Again movement nearly two decades after President George W. Bush, and his more traditional brand of GOP establishment politics, left office.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Over that time, the Bush family has found itself increasingly at odds with Trump and that movement. Trump\u2019s early forays into politics included sharp criticism of former President George W. Bush and the Iraq War; bitter clashes with Jeb Bush in the 2016 presidential primary hardened the feelings; and Billy Bush, Jonathan Bush\u2019s younger brother, figured prominently in the \u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d scandal that nearly undid Trump\u2019s first presidential bid.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            By 2022, cousin George P. Bush\u2019s unsuccessful campaign for Texas attorney general encapsulated the shifting landscape, as he was snubbed for Trump\u2019s endorsement despite solicitous appeals to his base.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        \u2018If you\u2019re a Bush, you\u2019re not new to politics\u2019\n<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"George Bush with family and brothers playing golf, from left are Prescott, William\" class=\"wp-image-1908\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/474b4a8e50508249108defd239279fc9.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/474b4a8e50508249108defd239279fc9.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/474b4a8e50508249108defd239279fc9-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>George Bush with family and brothers playing golf, from left are Prescott, William &#8220;Bucky&#8221;, George and Jonathan, the Maine gubernatorial candidate&#8217;s father, in July 1991.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>AP<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, suggested that Bush is in \u201ca tough spot.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI mean, you\u2019re not only a Bush, which obviously he is,\u201d he said. \u201cMost people may think of Bush and its place within the Republican Party. It\u2019s more of the kind of typical establishment wing of the Republican Party, which is right now very much out of favor.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            While he noted that some more traditional Republicans in Maine, like Sen. Susan Collins, have held on in the Trump era, Brewer said the Bush name was likely to be more of an anchor than benefit in the primary.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1887\">Democrat Xavier Becerra will advance to November election in California governor\u2019s race, CNN projects<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Phil Harriman, a former Republican state senator and conservative commentator, said he thought it\u2019s been to Bush\u2019s benefit to address his roots, and where he differs from his family.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cHe came across initially as the Energizer Bunny, or a jackrabbit, he was on the go all the time. And I think at first he may have kind of off-put some voters \u201d he said. \u201cAnd then he started reintroducing himself, taking the family name head-on, and then began to separate himself, knock on what makes him unique.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n             In characterizating himself as an outsider, Harriman sees Bush\u2019s perspective as \u201cI\u2019m not in Augusta, as opposed to, I\u2019m new to politics. If you\u2019re a Bush, you\u2019re not new to politics.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jonathan Bush watches as his father places his hand on the casket of his uncle, former US President George H.W. Bush as he lies in state inside the US Capitol Rotunda on Capitol Hill, on December 4, 2018.\" class=\"wp-image-1909\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/53c39dddac55363771f4527a20e9fa18.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/53c39dddac55363771f4527a20e9fa18.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/53c39dddac55363771f4527a20e9fa18-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Jonathan Bush watches as his father places his hand on the casket of his uncle, former US President George H.W. Bush as he lies in state inside the US Capitol Rotunda on Capitol Hill, on December 4, 2018.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Aaron P. Bernstein\/Reuters<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The latest Bush on the ballot is also not the only one with brand name recognition running this cycle \u2014 in Maine and across the country.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Two Democratic gubernatorial candidates\u2019 parents are current Maine officeholders \u2013 Hannah Pingree, the daughter of US Rep. Chellie Pingree, and Angus King III, the son of independent US Sen. Angus King. The scion of another famous family, Jack Schlossberg \u2013 grandson of President John F. Kennedy \u2013 is running for Congress in New York\u2019s 12th Congressional District.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cPeople sort of talk about Bushes like they\u2019re Kennedys, and there\u2019s a master plan. There\u2019s no master plan, there\u2019s no ranking committee, you know,\u201d Bush said. \u201cIt\u2019s a group of people that have had an extraordinary series of lightning bolts in terms of public service in their lives, but are very loving and very moral, a good model,\u201d he said, noting that \u201cI\u2019m living in 2026, not \u201906 and not \u201886.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n<strong>Ranked choice wildcard<\/strong>\n<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maine Republican gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles, left, fields a question from moderator Steve Robinson during a debate of Republican candidates for governor at Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, Maine, on Tuesday, March 24.\" class=\"wp-image-1910\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dfeda7553490d29c708616296dff361f.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dfeda7553490d29c708616296dff361f.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dfeda7553490d29c708616296dff361f-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Maine Republican gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles, left, fields a question from moderator Steve Robinson during a debate of Republican candidates for governor at Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, Maine, on Tuesday, March 24.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Rich Abrahamson\/The Central Maine Morning Sentinel\/AP<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Another wildcard Bush faces in his bid for the Blaine House: Maine\u2019s ranked-choice voting system.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            His top rival in the GOP primary is Charles, a former US assistant secretary of state who has emerged as the field\u2019s loudest conservative voice, and its most polarizing. Other candidates include former state Senate Majority Leader Garrett Mason; University of Maine trustee and biotech entrepreneur Owen McCarthy; former Planet Fitness President Ben Midgley; and a handful of lesser-known contenders.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In a statement to CNN, Charles criticized Bush as a \u201cnever Trumper,\u201d arguing that Maine is \u201ca small state, and it\u2019s easy for people to get to know you, which means it\u2019s also easy for them to see through you.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Asked about how he sees the role of the Bush name in Tuesday\u2019s primary, Charles said it\u2019s a question worth raising: \u201cIs this the last nail in the coffin for a family name that keeps losing races across the country? Seems so.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Bush, meanwhile, has said he would welcome the president\u2019s support.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Under the primary rules, if no candidate clears a majority after the first round, the lowest vote-getters are eliminated and their supporters\u2019 second-choice votes are redistributed until someone reaches 50%.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            That structure could benefit Bush, appearing to finish the race with momentum. Charles, despite leading in first-round estimates, is seen as a candidate with a narrow ceiling, strong among committed conservatives but with limited appeal as a second choice.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI think the conventional wisdom here is that Bobby Charles is going to have the most votes and the question becomes, how close can Jonathan Bush get to him in the first round,\u201d Harriman said. \u201cAnd then, do the people who voted for their second choice decide they would move in his direction.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The Democratic side is also crowded, with Pingree and King competing against former state Senate President Troy Jackson, Nirav Shah, the former director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention,  and former Secretary of State Shenna Bellows.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Maine has not elected consecutive governors from the same party since 1952, a historical pattern that could work in the Republican nominee\u2019s favor, with the outgoing two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills. But the general election will also feature independent Rick Bennett, a former Republican state senator seen as a viable spoiler.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The national environment adds another variable. Midterm elections have historically punished the president\u2019s party in Congress, and Maine\u2019s governor\u2019s race may not be insulated from the broader political mood.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But, Brewer, the political scientist, noted, \u201cIn a general, maybe the Bush name is a little more of a benefit than an anchor \u2013 but my answer depends on which election we\u2019re talking about.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Harriman also wondered if there could be a subliminal messaging benefit to the name. \u201cClearly there\u2019s something in those chromosomes that says, like, I need to serve,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=1885\">Trump\u2019s proposed 250-foot \u2018triumphal arch\u2019 likely poses no risk to aviation, FAA says<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Bush, the nephew of former President George H.W. Bush and cousin of former President George W. 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