Barbara Bush also attended one of her son’s town hall meetings Thursday night, where she was greeted with a long standing ovation from 300 people crowded into a middle school gymnasium.
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That’s because his mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, was in the house.
But Bush is ultimately banking on his experience as a businessman and former Florida governor to convince voters that he’s best suited for the Oval Office, arguing that the three top finishers in the Iowa caucuses -Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio – aren’t up to the job.
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Bush has turned in a series of mostly cringe-inducing performances in the GOP presidential debates, but his events in New Hampshire have taken the awkwardness to a whole new level. “And he’s everything we need in a president”.
“Certainly for Christie, and I think Bush at this point and Kasich, a no-show in New Hampshire or an under-performance in New Hampshire is very, very troubling given what’s up next on the calendar”, said Hari Sevugan, who worked on the ill-fated 2008 presidential run by Chris Dodd, then a senator from CT. What would Jeb do to keep the threat of ISIS from spreading to the US?
In his toughest political campaign, the former governor of Florida summoned a big gun, who also happened to be his No. 1 fan – his mother- in New Hampshire on Thursday.
But the Bush ad notes that, as a congressman in 1994, Kasich voted to ban assault weapons, while Bush proclaims, “I earned an A-plus rating from the NRA”. “I’m proud of being a Bush”, he told the Derry crowd.
Bush displayed rare moments of emotion, Bush choking up as he spoke of his dad.
Kasich is tenaciously holding on to what you might call the Jon Huntsman “proud moderate” position in the field, which gives him a chance for survival in New Hampshire, where Huntsman himself won 17 percent four years ago.
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“Wow, mom, my crowd sizes normally aren’t this large”. You could tell Bush sensed trouble, saying “I don’t know what it means to you, so…I’m not going to answer it, it makes me nervous”. I’m proud of my brother.
