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In show of financial strength, Bush campaign forms expansive finance team

Jeb Bush capped off a three-day swing through Iowa with a series of attacks on Donald Trump.

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Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush pauses as he is asked a question from the audience at the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum during a campaign stop Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, in Waterloo, Iowa. In an interview with the Iowa Public Television segment “Iowa Press”, which is set to air in full this…

A few different presidential candidates are campaigning in our area, including Jeb Bush. “It requires a real solid grass roots effort, and I think that’s healthy”.

Bush predicts his campaign will be more like that of John McCain in 2008, who started out slow but won the nomination in the end. He is the former governor of Florida and he has one of the most famous political last names in America.

“In October and November and even in December of the last two election cycles the people that were winning in December weren’t the individuals that ended up winning”, Bush said.

The committee’s formation comes days before major donors gather in Miami on Saturday for an update from Bush campaign officials on his position in the Republican race, now led by NY businessman Donald Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.

Bush’s campaign announced today eight additional staffers and four additional offices in the Granite State bringing their total to 20 staff members and 5 offices in the state.

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Bush also criticized Trump during an appearance on Fox News, and chastised Trump for getting his information “from websites” and Sunday talk shows. “They want to achieve earned success, and it’s up to us as conservatives to have a hopeful optimistic message, so that they can pursue their own dreams as they see fit”, said Bush. “It’s just the nature of the beast”. “I realize that the Bush political cabal may see all icky outsiders as the same, and thus assume that all will have the same fate”. “I told my mom I had the opportunity to come and she was like, ‘You should go. I have to understand why people are angry”, he said. “This is the most extraordinary time to be alive”.

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