The Former Florida Governor insisted that his focus has always and will continue to be about the people. Bush mingled in the stands during the game after delivering his speech under a cloudless blue sky in the high school parking lot. The candidate who lost the 2012 nomination to Mr. Romney, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, is polling at less than 1 percent.
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Bush’s floppy performance boils down to, does he really care or is this just family pressure?
That prompted Bush staff to dedicate a page in the document to that anonymous quote, with a simple message: no more trash-talking in the press. “Rubio is an outstanding performer”, said Bush campaign manager Danny Diaz. Jeb Bush needs an exclamation point in his slogan to communicate energy and charm.
Rubio also said he wasn’t sure why Bush made the decision to come after him in the recent CNBC debate in Boulder, Colorado.
The Republican hopeful “can appeal to both the head and the heart”, he added. But Bush’s plan backfired badly on national television in the third GOP presidential debate.
The decline is due to an underwhelming campaign presence. Following a modest fundraising haul in the quarter that ended in September, Bush began slashing expenses throughout his campaign – the most expansive organization of the Republican contenders.
All things being equal, you could even argue that it makes a certain amount of sense.
Just five days earlier, the son and brother of former presidents announced deep campaign spending cuts created to salvage his floundering bid. Wednesday’s performance was woefully unconvincing.
The endorsement could spur other donors in the party to move to the Rubio camp, including those considering backing Bush.
Rubio, by contrast, had his best outing yet.
Rubio shot back that Bush never complained about all the votes missed in 2008 by John McCain, to whose campaign Bush has compared his own.
Paul Singer, largely considered one of the most powerful Republican donors in the country, has tossed his support to Rubio, The New York Times reports.
The Bush campaign hopes to rebound next week with events that will play to Bush’s strengths. “These groups can solicit unlimited donations and later use them to pummel rivals – or, as seems to be the case this cycle, take on a few of the duties traditionally handled by a campaign, such as organizing town hall meetings or doing voter outreach”.
Instead of generating much needed momentum, Bush’s attack on his onetime protege raised new questions about his underwhelming candidacy in the primary contest he was once expected to dominate.
But if he can’t reverse the downward spiral of his campaign numbers, all the money in the world won’t save him.
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“It’s not on life support”. No other candidate’s favorability among Republicans has fallen as sharply in that time frame, reported Five Thirty Eight. No, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley didn’t crash the party. Barack Obama, and she looks to be the party’s nominee. The two parties have seemingly switched campaign styles in the past four years, with Republicans putting up young, fresh candidates while Democrats have dug through the recycling bin.
