“Jeb will unite our country”.
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“I don’t give a you-know-what about whether I’m popular or not”.
Here in New Hampshire, some voters seem ready to put the Bushes in the political rearview mirror.
The Iowa caucus, where Rubio finished a strong third with 23% and Bush managed only 2.8% and sixth place, only reinforced those doubts. “So remember the campaign has just started”. He also said that the Keystone XL pipeline, which Bush supports, had used eminent domain, and that it would not exist without the policy.
George W. Bush’s aides have hinted that the former president will make an appearance on his brother’s campaign trail in the coming weeks. Lately, Bush tends to say definitively that Trump won’t be the party’s pick and avoids answering the hypothetical. “I am who I am”.
“I didn’t really plan on this”, Barbara said.
In a short video of Jeb Bush speaking town hall style somewhere in New Hampshire, he takes on the passivity of a person faced with one too many disappointments in his life.
“And my next son is going to be”, Barbara tells them. For example, this week, Bush praised the President’s visit to the Baltimore mosque, claiming that it was “more than appropriate”.
Donald Trump’s history of using of eminent domain to seize private property for various development projects came under fire during Saturday’s Republican presidential debate. When Mr. Bush tried to interject, Mr. Trump was having none of it. “Quiet”, he snapped. “And I embrace that each and every day”. Ted Cruz to another first-term senator that ran for president eight years ago: Barack Obama. “I think it’s a great country, there are a lot of great families, and it’s not just four families or whatever”. His campaign released a TV ad that included footage of former Sen.
In an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday, the former Republican governor said Rubio has accomplished little during his time in the Senate.
If Jeb’s campaign fails, the Bush family record in presidential races will fall to three wins (George the elder in 1988 and George the younger in 2000 and 2004) and three losses (the elder George in 1980 and 1992 and Jeb in 2016).
“Bless his heart, as we say in North Florida”, Jeb Bush said. “I’ve been voting for a long time”. But in recent days, he has been much more emotional.
Thursday night’s overflow crowd clearly energized Bush and his campaign. He says New Hampshire voters have a chance to “restart this race”.
And the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper’s publisher criticized Rubio in an editorial for presenting himself as a Washington outsider, saying Rubio “must think New Hampshire a bunch of rubes”.
“We’ll be talking about Jeb Bush’s ground game next Wednesday. I’ve listened to their promises for years and years”, he said, and then seen the same problems crop up again in the next election.
A top New Hampshire official for the Republican National Committee is blasting ABC’s decision to exclude Carly Fiorina from Saturday’s debate in the first primary state. Door-knockers this week included Bush’s senior strategist Sally Bradshaw, and a coterie of former aides from his governorship.
At 72, Warren’s values align with those she sees in the Bushes.
The Bush campaign blamed the “shenanigans” on supporters of GOP rival Marco Rubio.
“Take it from people who know Marco and Jeb best”, they wrote. “We are trying to make the rounds this weekend”.
Jason Rosenberg, a reconstructive surgeon from Gainesville, Fla., traveled this week to New Hampshire with his two teenage daughters to knock on doors.
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Robert McNair, owner of the Houston Texans football team and a friend of Bush’s father, former President George H.W. Bush. “I’m going to do the right thing for the American public”. “Donald Trump? I’ll leave it at that”, he said, as his mother laughed.
