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The backing from Neil Bush comes as Ted Cruz attempts to consolidate support from all primary voters not backing Trump. | AP Photo Bush family member endorses Cruz

Ted Cruz on Tuesday nabbed an unlikely endorsement: the backing of a Bush.

Neil Bush, a brother of George W. Bush and Jeb Bush, was listed (along with his wife) as one of 13 new additions to Cruz's national finance team. The campaign said the new additions are all former supporters of other candidates, including Bush, Rand Paul, Rick Perry and Marco Rubio.

This follows the release last week of a list of several other previous Jeb Bush backers now supporting Cruz, whose hardline conservative approach is generally at odds with the one Jeb Bush took.

Last summer, former President George W. Bush told supporters at a private fundraiser for his brother's campaign that Cruz was the GOP contender who most got under his skin. "I just don't like the guy," George W. Bush said at a Denver fundraiser.

The backing from Neil Bush comes as Cruz is attempting to consolidate support from all primary voters not backing Trump behind him and not Marco Rubio, the Florida senator whose candidacy has been seen as a personal affront to Jeb Bush, his former mentor.

Jeb Bush ended his campaign on Feb. 21 after a distant fourth place showing in South Carolina.

Eli Stokols contributed.