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Jeb Bush’s son asks MI backers for campaign help

As Bush pulls out the stops ahead of the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, he said his family’s support gives him extra energy. “He sort of makes faces and says insulting things”.

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“He was “Trumped” more than any other candidate in this race”, said historian John Robert Greene, who wrote a book on the George H.W. Bush presidency and is at work on another one about George W. Bush’s two terms in the White House. Asked if Rubio’s position is too extreme, Bush said he “respects” it but thinks it won’t resonate with large swaths of voters.

George W. Bush already has taped a television ad for the political action committee supporting Jeb, representing his most visible move to support his brother so far, according to Politico.

“But he’s not a bragger”, she said.

I don’t mean to suggest Rubio is less popular than the polls here say.

If he falters, experts warn, Bush would confirm the narrative painted by critics, that he is a tarnished candidate from the past unable to generate enthusiasm for yet another Bush presidency amid the current appetite for outsiders like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

Bush also took swipes at Florida Sen.

“It was a big sacrifice”, Bush said.

“If you look at their records, they’re gifted in how they speak, but what about their life experience?” “I still hope Jeb’s our nominee”, he said, before adding “but we would be a fortunate nation to have Marco as our president”.

At least one Bush backer, Nevada assemblyman David Gardner, has publicly switched his endorsement to Rubio.

Tuesday night, fresh from his third-place finish in Iowa, Rubio packed the town hall in Exeter, N.H. The room was filled with 700 people – and some genuine electricity.

“I think on the news he plays well to these small audiences”, he said.

“Here’s the Jeb story”, he said at his New London event.

But he has plummeted down the polls following the surprise success of controversial billionaire Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the Texas senator who won Monday’s Iowa caucus. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a Jeb Bush backer, told The New York Times a day after the Iowa caucuses in which 97 percent of GOP participants opted for somebody other than sixth-place finisher Bush.

“Now it’s time to ask who do we really want on that stage with Hillary”. “Every campaign, every candidate will be contrasted and compared”.

“I know this about politics – when everyone’s attacking you, you must be doing something right”, Rubio told reporters in Manchester.

But Bush’s performance as a presidential candidate has been viewed as awkward even among his supporters, and there is now a stronger sentiment swirling around establishment Republican circles than loyalty to the Bushes: terror of the notion of a Trump or Cruz nomination.

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“Almost all of these candidates have never lost an election”.

Seeking Applause Line, Jeb Bush Struggles With Voters