At another point, he took an additional shot, condemning the media for going soft on Hillary Rodham Clinton after last week’s Benghazi committee hearing.
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He’s participated in several fundraisers, including another in Dallas this March for a super PAC supporting Jeb. “They’re called the mainstream media”.
“They need to step it up to see who’s going to be that alternative to Trump or Carson”, said 10 News political expert Lars Hafner. “This is not a cage match”. Calling Trump and Carson fantasy candidates probably won him the undying love of the Republican establishment, but he probably sealed his fate with voters by speaking out against the fantasy plans that Republican voters love.
John Kasich also may have made a few progress in the Establishment sweepstakes, delivering a passionate performance and an aggressive sales job of his record. “Rubio, or resign it”.
He said he wouldn’t admit a single one of the thousands of Syrian refugees destined for the United States because “these people could be ISIS”.
GOP pollster Frank Luntz said on Twitter that the hit scored off the charts with his focus group.
It seems that part of Bush’s effort to improve his stock involved taking stabs at his fellow Florida candidate, Marco Rubio. If they were ever that close, they are certainly not now.
This past weekend Jeb joined former Presidents George H. and George W. Bush for a two-day pep rally/summit in Houston for the nervous donors whose energy is becoming as low Jeb’s poll numbers. “I mean, the most important thing a senator does is constituent service. Just show up or resign”, Bush said.
“What is this a French work week?”
“And you know what, we head to New Hampshire tomorrow, get to work, campaigning again with the best organization in the Granite State, working every day to get out the vote and win the nomination”, he added. “But I said, ‘Wait a minute, we weren’t safe because the World Trade Center just came down, thousands of people were killed, it was horrific.’ It was the greatest attack in the history of this country, so you can’t say we were safe”.
Where did Bush go? He’ll release more commercials that do nothing to bolster him as a viable candidate, let alone the only man capable of leading the GOP back to the White House.
The Republican Party has real differences over entitlements.
They should be about substance, he said.
But they disagreed sharply on what to do about that. Critics have questioned whether the government could still raise enough revenue under that type of flat tax system to pay for programs like Social Security. So if he wants to do something really cool, then maybe he should endorse a viable candidate who will go all in.
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Mr. Trump plowed new ground when he said he would consider allowing employees at his business empire’s establishments to carry firearms, as he often does himself, saying gun-free zones have become targets for “sickos”.
