'I will not lie to you': Former Bush White House press secretary offers blunt assessment of election

Oliver Darcy
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Former Bush White House press secretary offers blunt assessment of election
Former Bush White House press secretary offers blunt assessment of election

Dana Perino, a Fox News host and former White House press secretary for President George W. Bush, offered a blunt assessment of the 2016 race on Twitter on Wednesday night.

Perino, who has been critical of GOP nominee Donald Trump, said that she wanted to get "a few things" off her chest.

The conservative personality then said in a spate of tweets that she "will not lie" to her fans and say that the Republican Party has a good chance of doing well in the November election.

"I won't do it," she wrote. "No amount of peer pressure digital or otherwise can move me."

Perino said "the future of this party is at risk" and that she wouldn't be a party to the "delusion" that polls don't matter. She was likely alluding to her Fox News cohost, Eric Bolling, who tried to argue that Trump's large crowds are a more important predictor of success than polls.

Trump has been down in nearly every national poll for weeks and is down in several of the key battleground states.

Read Perino's tweetstorm:

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