The former Florida governor – who didn’t immediately explain the photo of the pistol inscribed with his name – posted it after visiting the weapons maker FN Manufacturing in Columbia, South Carolina. “But Rubio clearly is our best hope and most qualified to be commander in chief with Jeb out of the race”.
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It’s a drastic shift from the approach he took at the start of his campaign hinting at how precarious his fortunes have become. Bush brushed off questions about whether SC would be his campaign’s last stand, saying he is doing well in the Palmetto State.
Bush has spent the past week in South Caroling trying to rally support.
“He understands the job because his brother and his father have had that job”, Graham said.
Republican lawmakers, many of whom are backed by the powerful lobby group the National Rifle Association, blocked Obama’s attempt to pass gun control legislation after the incident. “You get insight into things that are personal”.
Bush has a long way to go to catch up the GOP leaders. “You could just see the burden”. “And I received a gun and I was honored to have it”, Bush said, according to The Hill.
The photo pulled in plenty of support but also plenty of objection. And yet he finished sixth in Iowa’s leadoff caucuses on February 1 and fourth in the New Hampshire primary on February 8. The tweet has exploded online and has the potential to boost his image among Southerners beyond SC who value the 2nd Amendment and the right to bear arms. The wrong sort of presidential campaign history.
But mostly Jeb’s gaffe-ridden campaign was the target of the most ridicule. For instance, I used to mock “compassionate conservatism” for having little or no substance to it; my favorite example was the “Compassion Photo Album” featured on the Bush reelection campaign web site, which consisted entirely of photos of George and Laura alongside non-white people. In Summerville, his clip-on microphone didn’t work. He has let Trump push him around for eight months, not just push him around but make him look like a kid on the way to school whose lunch money he just stole.
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The problem is that Bush previously was the only Republican presidential candidate to not own a firearm.
