In an exclusive first interview on board his campaign bus Wednesday, Bush told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl that campaigning for president is “a contact sport”. “I’m going to spend more time in the early states”. Many in the old Bush network now say they’ve picked another candidate to support or are staying out of the primary process altogether.
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“Folks who had historically been with his father and his brother and were looking to maybe participate in his campaign were basically ignored”, said former Sen.
Bush said that he was intent on keeping his campaign focused on issues, but added that comparisons with other candidates was inevitable. It’s things like, for example, if your refrigerator break, we live in south Florida, if our air-conditioning unit goes gown, we have a ten-year-old house now.
Jeb Bush’s rebooted campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination has included an apology to the French for making a joke about their work ethic. Flannigan bought it. He said Tuesday that Google analytics aren’t revealing precisely how much traffic jebcanfixit.com is getting, but “it’s in the thousands, I know that much”.
Why are Donald Trump and Ben Carson, and not those who have spent time in public office, leading in the polls?
“The Bush boat is taking on serious water at this point, and they’ve got to do something”, Buchanan said. I’d kill for him.
Bush has been subject to criticism on social media in recent weeks, especially after a dismal performance at a Republican presidential debate last week in Colorado. Lara Brown, professor of political management at George Washington University says, “Thus far, Bush has not appealed to large numbers of voters or, for that matter, to small dollar donors…It is true that Bush has plentiful resources, but money won’t make the difference if he can not connect with the electorate”. “I think people are going to think about who’s going to sit behind the big desk”.
“The same way all candidates win New Hampshire”, he said.
Rubio said Wednesday his campaign will release records “soon”.
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“I don’t see it”, Bush said. The campaign is trying to regroup with a swing through Florida, where Bush is talking up his record as governor, including his leadership during two devastating hurricane seasons. Twenty-five percent of people nationwide view Bush favorably, according to the poll, while 58 percent indicated they view him unfavorably, giving him a net favorability of negative 33 percent.
