He became defensive when pressed, saying “you give me a better term and I’ll use it”. Following Bush’s remarks, Manriquez said people could have easily mistaken the former Florida governor for the real estate businessman for using the “anchor baby” comment.
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Since then, Trump has also ramped up his attacks against Bush on Twitter.
However, there were no signatories on the memo.
“Having a steady vote share in New Hampshire the summer before the primary is a good place to be”, Bush spokesman Tim Miller said. Users of the term and critics of birthright citizen allege that the child is an anchor baby because they can sponsor their parents for citizenship, though law prevents them from doing so until they turn 21. “Once we get the name issue resolved, we need to work on Jeb’s charisma, or lack thereof”.
The candidate most imperiled by Trump’s staying power is Bush, whose campaign had expected that Trump’s childish antics would position the former governor favorably as the party’s resident grown-up. Jeb continued. He finished his speech with referring Trump into some kind of summer flavor; temporary.
“The world is a lot more unsafe today than it was the day Barack Obama got elected president“, said Bush, who pledged to strengthen ties with traditional allies and make enemies of America “twitch”.
“This is the deal – what I stated was that it is generally referred to that”, he informed reporters Thursday. But Democrats are pouncing on his use of the term – which many find offensive – to paint him as disingenuous. Another reporter suggested “children born of undocumented immigrants to the U.S.”, which is not another word, Jeb explained, it’s “like a seven word” thing, and impossible to say. “I am sorry. Now, here is what I am really trying to say about the issue…” Donald Trump, the media candy bowl of the 2016 election (and Republican front-runner), has used it while speaking about immigration and ending birthright citizenship.
Cullen, a former New Hampshire GOP chairman, said the change in tone and tactics was a smart move for Bush, one that could help him in the Granite State. A reporter asked Bush if he regretted using the term “anchor babies” on Bill Bennett’s radio show earlier this week, to which he snapped, “You give me a better term and I’ll use it”, ABC’s CANDACE SMITH notes.
Twenty miles away, Trump also went after Bush, and not almost as politely, ripping his support for Common Core, his stance on immigration, and chiding his rival’s campaign mode as “low energy”.
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LLAMAS: Now, both Trump and Bush are facing tough questions about the term anchor babies, used to try American-born children of undocumented immigrants, implying parents have children to anchor themselves in the U.S.so they’re not deported. That’s probably because, according to the Washington Post, it was the first time he’s uttered the term publicly on the campaign trail.
