Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Sen. Simultaneously, they hailed the rise in the presidential race of Marco Rubio, the Florida senator who bested Bush in a key debate exchange.
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“I’m not one of these complainers about this, okay”, Christie said.
Bush’s burdens didn’t stop there, of course.
“He said campaigns are supposed to have ups and downs”, said another attendee.
This week, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio forget the pot shots and square off during the third Republican debate. “And I just don’t believe there’s anyone else running who has a better understanding of the issues before us now than I do”. “Marco’s my friend”, he added. “He had a rough week, but I was really really darn impressed with him today”. He is a gifted politician for sure. Wednesday night’s attack from Bush backfired.
Now Bush looks like he’s not only behind, he looks like he’s going to lose. “They want someone who can dress them down”.
In the first 36 hours after the debate, the campaign said they raised more than $750,000 from 14,000 donors online. That’s where the former Florida governor needs a strong showing if he is to remain a contender for his party’s nomination and where he’s now working to reignite a campaign seen as sputtering. “I’m trying to lend encouragement and let people know this is a guy worth following”.
“It can’t take 25 years, that does no one any good”.
Christie, New Jersey’s Governor, didn’t agree with Cruz’s ideas for reforming the debates and said “while he’s doing that, I’ll go and get a few of the votes that he might have gotten otherwise”.
Michael Der Manouel Jr., chairman of the GOP-supporting Lincoln Club of Fresno County, says the local political money traditionally has rallied around an establishment candidate.
Billionaire New York investor Paul Singer sent a letter to dozens of other donors on Friday declaring his support for Rubio in a major blow to the struggling campaign of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the newspaper said. The Florida senator may be poised to dethrone business magnate Donald Trump as the GOP front-runner.
Bush’s net favorability has dropped 28 percentage points since mid-June, while the average candidate’s net favorability declined by just 5 percentage points.
Aides confirmed that this is the first time that Bush has expressed concerns about the death penalty as a presidential candidate.
And worse, he seems to have given up on the job that Floridians elected him to do. We have to “trust them”, because they know how to get it done.
Commentators in the USA believe the 62-year-old made a huge mistake in choosing to attack Mr Rubio’s lack of experince during a televised debate between candidates last Wednesday, given that the two have been close allies.
It is a portrait of deep frustration. He is likely to make a large contribution to one of the outside groups allied with Rubio’s presidential campaign.
But so far, Bush hasn’t come anywhere near Fresno. He does. But in the current political wealth environment, the Valley might not measure up on these new money scales – at least for a candidate fundraiser. But while he benefited from that self-fulfilling prophecy, he’s now in danger of falling victim to a new one. If the questions go off on a tangent, viewers see that, too. And as Nate Silver points out, the conventional wisdom matters for Bush more than most “because Bush is running a conventional campaign”. Asked if it’s been joyful, Bush responded, “It has been joyful”. It’s unlikely he’ll find life as an also-ran any more enjoyable. But like John Kasich, who has even less chance of winning the nomination, Bush is a bridge to a time when the Republican Party wasn’t a danger to itself and others. He is not a man for this season.
BUSH: It’s not about the big personalities on the stage. It is relatively unfair that Bush is anchored by his last name, but it is true.
If we use Fiorina’s preferred measure, we reached a record number of people living in poverty under the watch of every president starting with Richard Nixon, Danziger pointed out. It was George W, not Jeb, who was vying for the presidency in 2000.
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When Bush declined to support trading $10 in spending cuts for $1 in tax increases, he was essentially saying the bridge had collapsed. But at the end of the day Mr. Singer’s scheme was the best fit. He never had an obvious broad base within the party. “It was the law of the land when I was governor, and I faithfully dealt with it. To be honest with you, it is not a deterrent anymore because it’s seldom used”.
