George Bush fights for GOP candidates, but not Ted Cruz

Former President George W. Bush is conducting fundraisers for GOP candidates facing tough challenges ahead of the mid-term elections. He will not run for Ted Cruz, the Republican senator from his home state of Texas, the Dallas Morning News reported.

A spokesman for Bush told the newspaper that the other appearances of the campaign "worked according to our schedule".

But it's not a secret for anyone. Bush is not a big fan of Cruz, who served as an internal political advisor to Bush's 2000 presidential race and Beto O'Rourke's November elections.

Bush said about Cruz at a fundraiser hosted by the GOP in late 2015: "I do not like the guy," Politico told several donors. Cruz was running against Bush's brother, Jeb Bush, for the GOP presidential nomination.

"The content of what he said about the other candidates was really nice," said a witness to Politico. "Until it happens to Cruz."

Bush called Cruz's apparent alliance with Donald Trump at the start of the "opportunist" GOP presidential race, a source told Politico. This relationship deteriorated shortly after Trump mocked Cruz's wife, Heidi Cruz, and repeated a bizarre conspiracy theory that Cruz's father was linked to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963

During a radio interview in Lubbock, Texas, Cruz was questioned about Bush campaigning with him.

"I've been working for him for many years and we'll see if anything happens with him or not," replied Cruz, The Houston Chronicle.

Bush participated in a fundraiser on Friday for Florida governor Rick Scott, who ran for the Senate. Politico reported last week that it also had to attend the events of North Dakota Senate candidate Kevin Cramer, Missouri Senate candidate Josh Hawley and Indiana Senate candidate Mike Braun.

"Although he prefers to consider himself a retired politician, he recognizes how important it is (for the GOP) to keep the Senate and decided to help a few key candidates," the spokesman said. Bush's word, Freddy Ford.

In Texas, the former president also lent his support to GOP Rep. Pete Sessions and recently participated in an event in support of GOP representative Will Hurd.