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Barbara Bush isn’t ‘getting in a spitting match’ with Trump

Without naming any of his rivals, he said, “I think I have more credibility than someone who’s never done squat”. We don’t allow that.

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He’s decent, honest – everything we need in a president. “I didn’t really plan on this”, the former First Lady said at a rally Thursday night with Jeb in New Hampshire.

The Tampa Bay Times on Tuesday morning quoted Marie Stevens, a payroll manager who lived in Florida from 2000 to 2002, saying Bush was “just amazing” as governor, but that “I don’t want to waste a vote if he’s not going to win or has no chance”.

A voter at a community center in Hollis asked Kasich how he could replicate and scale up his successes in OH if he becomes president.

Later, O’Donnell noted that Barbara had said she was OK with another Bush in the White House, and asked “What about another Clinton?”

Jeb Bush, once the presumed front-runner for the Republican nomination for president, has fallen dramatically in the polls over the past several months while Trump has overtaken him and the rest of the field. “She’s one of the most popular women in America”.

“Maybe that will help him”, he said.

Bush’s Super PAC, Right to Rise, has released ads criticizing Rubio for being too pro-life on abortion and too liberal on immigration. “I don’t even think about him”, she said.

A registered Republican, she said she supported George H.W. Bush in 1988, but not W, saying that in 2000 she had a son going into the military and feared that any Republican would be more likely to want to go to war (Of course, 9-11 happened a year later, and the USA military was sent to shut down Al Qaeda in Afghanistan before the Iraq war took place).

As she walked in that direction, she joked, “You, get out of my way”.

“The connection between mom and dad and people here in the Granite State is phenomenal”, Bush said. The campaign finance rules make it possible to keep running with just one supporter – provided he’s a generous billionaire. Whether they can speak or not. The former president is also expected to hit the campaign trail in the state ahead of its February 20 primary.

Bush fully embraced his family’s legacy on Wednesday night.

The Florida Senator, who rode a wave of Tea Party support to the Senate in 2010, rose through the ranks of the Florida GOP establishment thanks in large part to the patronage of Governor Bush. I’m proud of my brother. I’m proud of my brother. “Jeb will unite our country, he knows how to bring the world together against terror and he knows when tough measures must be taken”. “It is not about trash talk”.

But Barbara Bush protested: “It was no sacrifice”. Bush came in fifth in the Iowa caucuses, behind Rand Paul. It must have been a good day for Bush’s campaign office.

“I finally said that they must cheer up”, she wrote. They voted for Rubio.

Kasich, who is faring the best in the polls among the governors and has spent a significant portion of his campaigning thus far in New Hampshire – his one hundredth rally is scheduled for Friday – has refrained from direct attacks on Rubio, vowing for a positive campaign much like that of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders.

And in 2000, when her son was in a virtual dead heat with McCain, she appeared at a town hall meeting with the rest of the family and told the crowd: “Thank you for all you’re doing for my boy”.

“You have the values and the beliefs that we Bushes believe in”, she added.

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Rubio vocalized his opposition to exceptions for abortions during the first Fox News debate held in August 2015, pushing back on Fox News host Megyn Kelly’s suggestion that he supported them in the cases of rape and incest.

Jeb Bush holds a campaign town hall meeting at the Alpine Club on Monday in Manchester N.H