Barbara Pierce Bushdaughter of the former president George W. Bush and the granddaughter of the former president George HW Bushspent part of the weekend in Pennsylvania campaigning for vice president Kamala Harris just a few days before the 2024 presidential election.

“It was inspiring to join friends and meet constituents with Harris-Waltz campaign in Pennsylvania this weekend,” Barbara, 42, shared in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE on Tuesday, Oct. 29. “I hope they will move our country forward and protect women’s rights.”

Barbara’s Republican father was president from 2001 to 2009. Her mother, former first lady Laura Bush77, broke with the party position in 2010 saying he supports same-sex marriage and abortion. At the time, Laura said abortion should “remain legal because I think it’s important to people, for medical reasons and for other reasons.”

In March 2017, Barbara rallied for Planned Parenthoodspeaking at a fundraiser for the women’s health nonprofit.

“I’m proud to support Planned Parenthood not only because women, regardless of where they come from, deserve to live dignified and healthy lives, (but) … because it’s a very good investment,” she said at the event, according to Texas Tribune. “We know that when women are healthy, their families and their children are also healthier.”

Barbara, now a mother of two children, told PEOPLE in 2010 that she does not identify with any of the main political parties and has since been described as an independent.

While Laura and George, 78, have not weighed in on the 2024 presidential election, George’s running mate Dick Cheney stunned the nation by sharing that he plans to vote for Harris. Cheney’s daughter, former representative of Wyoming. Liz Cheneyalso claimed Harris, 60, and has campaigned with the vice president.

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Harris also won approval of Susan Ford Balesthe daughter of another former Republican president—the late Gerald Ford. Bales’ father took office after Richard Nixon resigned after Watergate in 1974.

“America cannot regress back to a divisive paradigm of loathing each other and disdain for our Constitution,” Bales wrote on Oct. 21. “We witnessed on January 6 the horrors of what this looks like and we can never allow that tragedy to happen again.”

Barbara is a nonprofit leader and author with a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University. In 2009, she co-founded Global Health Corps, an organization that aims to create new generations of leaders who can address global health issues.

Former first daughter co-wrote a memo in 2017, with her twin sister, Jenna Bush Hagerabout their lives in the spotlight.

In September, Jenna — who hosts Today with Hoda and Jenna on NBC— told PEOPLE that Barbara inspired her to take leaps she might not have otherwise taken.

“I don’t think I would have this job. I don’t know (that) I would have started this book club. She makes me feel brave and empowered because she was my first audience,” Jenna said. “She was the first hand I held. And so I always felt supported, even when we were teenagers, and we were throwing shoes at each other’s heads.”