He added: “While Donald Trump was building a reality TV show, my brother was building a security apparatus to keep us safe and I’m proud of what he did”. Cruz, who, like Rubio, is of Cuban descent, shot back: “Si quieres – ahora mismo, dice lo ahora, en español, si quieres”. “But the deciding factor for me is who can beat Hillary Clinton”.
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Jeb comes into SC having struggled for months and trailing in the national polls by a significant amount.
“I’m rescinding the invitation”, Bush said. Ohio Gov. John Kasich is running an admirable campaign and has continued to play up his (comparatively) more moderate stance on the issues.
The former president also recalled his own past campaigns in the Palmetto State, including a humorous moment when a protester unloaded a pile of manure outside an iconic SC restaurant – Tommy’s Country Ham House in Greenville – where he was eating breakfast.
It was the most bitter exchange between them over the course of nine debates ahead of the November 8 presidential election and was a sign of how critical both see a strong showing in SC.
In Saturday’s GOP debate, Trump said it was undeniable that the World Trade Centers fell under Bush’s watch, and that the Bush administration lied the American people prior to the US invasion of Iraq, saying, “They said there were weapons of mass destruction”.
Drawing boos from an audience that appeared stacked with supporters of his rivals and fans of the Bush family, Trump did not flinch. Because while Jeb exited with that almost 2/3rds approval in a purple state (Obama won it twice after going ever-so-barely red in 2000 and again in 2004), his father is the only one-term Republican president elected to office since Herbert Hoover (1933), while W. left office in 2009 under a deep recession and an approval rating of 34 percent (Gallup).
Bush will make his highly anticipated debut on the 2016 campaign trail during a Monday evening appearance in SC, but don’t expect him to start taking shots at Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
“The point is, is he a popular Republican? I don’t think so”.
Trump, who also criticized Barbara Bush for her attacks last week in New Hampshire, took to Twitter to bash the upcoming Bush event in North Charleston. That too gives SC special prominence as a key test in the early calendar.
Cruz also blasted Trump’s sister, a federal appellate judge, calling her a “radical pro-abortion extremist” who should not be considered for the Supreme Court vacancy.
“It means a lot, the family name is good here”, Graham said.
Then came 1994. Jeb Bush lost his election for governor of Florida, while George W., a co-owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, captured the governor’s mansion in Texas. The perspective in this space, conversely, has always been steadfastly bearish on Bush’s chances because of the aforementioned branding problem.
“He has had the gall to go after my mother”, Bush said. Her record includes supporting intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, Western Sahara and Libya, drawing praise from neoconservatives for being more aggressive than the Bush-era secretary of state, Robert Gates.
Bush and his backers certainly hope it’s the case.
Jeb Bush, a former Florida governor, who once sought to distance himself from his family, celebrated his brother’s accomplishments as president for keeping America safe. The rally is on Monday night at 6 p.m.in Charleston.
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“The primary reason is I’m afraid of the Bush legacy – there’s such a divide”, said Blevins, 37, of Seneca, S.C. “There are a lot of people, including Republicans, who disapproved of the Iraq war and don’t support Jeb, and I think he’d have a hard time leading because of that”. “I am sick and exhausted of him going after my family”.
