Jeb Bush addresses the crowd at a campaign rally on February 19, 2016 in South Carolina. | Getty Jeb Bush calls on Trump to retract his judge attacks

Jeb Bush isn’t satisfied with Donald Trump’s response to the outcry over his racially charged attack on an U.S. federal judge and his Mexican heritage.

After days of condemnation from Republicans, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Trump’s campaign released a 700-word statement Tuesday suggesting that the real estate mogul’s comments about U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel were “misconstrued as a categorical attack against people of Mexican heritage.”


Trump has questioned the Indiana-born judge’s ability to impartially preside over Trump University fraud cases, given that his parents were born in Mexico and Trump has pledged to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border that Mexico will pay for. And in the statement on Tuesday, he did not apologize for his earlier attacks.

Bush, who has said he won’t vote for Trump in November, called on the billionaire to recant.

“Donald Trump should retract his comments, not defend them,” the former Florida governor tweeted. “There is no place for racism in the GOP, or this country.”

