“We need to take them out, the idea of containing ISIS is a failed policy”, he added.
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Bush says he’ll be spending a lot of time in New Hampshire, where he is now running far behind Trump in the polls.
“What he needs is somebody every morning to pump him up and tell him ‘why you need to be the best damned candidate, ‘” said one source familiar with the debate among donors about what might help Bush.
“Donald Trump’s a really capable politician, he’s just not qualified to be president”, Bush said. “He gets upset, he’s going to start disparaging our allies”. He will attend a fundraiser on Thursday night in Washington at the home of Boyden Gray, a long-time figure in Republican politics who was a senior aide to his father, former President George H.W. Bush.
Bush also criticized Trump during an appearance on Fox News, and chastised Trump for getting his information “from websites” and Sunday talk shows.
“First of all, that book is crap”, Bush said.
Bush said candidates who appeal to the “fears and angst” among voters won’t win the GOP nomination.
“Yeah for a great majority of practitioners, it is a peaceful religion”.
Bush, seen as the Republican frontrunner early on, has struggled to gain traction in a crowded GOP field that has been dominated for months by businessman Donald Trump. “It’s just the nature of the beast”.
“We have some candidates that are trying to get attention the wrong way”, Bush said. “I have to understand why people are angry”, he said. We measure ourselves by that goal alone.Bush and his supporters are making the case that, in the wake of the November 13 attacks in Paris, voters will take another look his message of experience which they hope will eventually overtake interest in outsider candidates such as Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.The good news is the numbers arent slipping, and to me, theres been a vast improvement in the campaign, said Fred Zeidman, a Houston-based donor.
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“I think that’s ludicrous”, he said of the comment. I’m not going to fake people out. “This is the most extraordinary time to be alive”.
