“His endorsement is very meaningful and along with it come a lot of friends and supporters of his”, Bush told Fox News.
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213-a-06-(Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., at news conference)-“bring us together”-Senator Lindsey Graham says Jeb Bush is the candidate most capable of dealing with divisive issues such as immigration”.
Graham will endorse his former rival on Friday.
Many of Graham’s fans jumped to Bush after the senator left the race, including at least 10 of his campaign staff members, among them former U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins, Reuters reported last month. Bush said he would keep all options open for dealing with North Korea, but stopped short of calling for a pre-emptive strike against it.
Graham, who ended his bid for the White House in December, said Bush is the only candidate in the race who can defend America.
“Don’t run for president if you are going to double-down on insane”, he said.
For his part, Bush praised Graham’s foreign policy experience and said he would continue to seek the senator’s advice. While the war in Afghanistan was widely viewed as retaliation for the September 11th attacks, the 2003 U.S.-led war in Iraq received widespread condemnation as it aimed to destroy weapons of mass destruction that were never found. Graham quit at O”, Trump tweeted, following shortly with, “Sen.
Graham today noted that Bush was the lone candidate in last night’s debate to explicitly reject Trump’s continued call to indefinitely ban non-citizen Muslims from entering the United States. It might be an important endorsement for Bush, but it’s hard to see how this will help Bush in the polls. The particular problem for Mr Rubio, who has campaigned hard in SC, is not only that he could have done with Mr Graham’s nod; but also an apprehension that he is, though talented and attractive, too green to be president.
Still, Graham can be a polarizing figure in SC politics.
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Jeb Bush has called Donald Trump a “jerk” in a new television advertisement.
