“I’ve got to get this off my chest: Donald Trump is a jerk.”, said Bush in front of his supporters, according to the same source.
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Saturday’s string of town hall events marked Bush’s first public campaign events in more than a week as the candidate has harshened his rhetoric toward the billionaire businessman.
“Who is he kidding?” As long as Americans constitutional values are strong, I say let Trump act as a catharsis.
Mr Bush exhaled with a laugh: “I gave myself therapy there”. “Thank you for allowing me to do it”. The former Florida governor, the son and brother of former presidents, was once considered the establishment favourite for the party’s nomination, but Bush’s policy-heavy campaign has been sagging for months and failing to break into double digits in preference polls. At least two people in the audience mentioned the real estate mogul, and Bush blasted away.
Bush, for his part, says he’s stepping up his criticism on Trump now because Trump is displaying shallow ideas on foreign policy.
“SNL” continued to mock Dr. Ben Carson as being boring and sheepish, even having him donning glasses to hide that he fell asleep during the debate. Bush said, referencing Trump’s garbled answer on modernizing the nuclear triad. “He has no clue”.
Of Vladimir Putin, Bush said, “he will respect strength, not a clown show”.
Other candidates who took a hit were Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeb Bush, now at 11% and 3% respectively. Sen.
“He’s an embarrassment to the Bush family, and in fact he doesn’t even want to use the Bush name, which is interesting”, Trump said.
Mr Bush plans to compete seriously in New Hampshire, with a schedule that has him in the north of the state before Christmas, and back again for several days before New Year’s Day. Trump has been able to capture the anxieties of a niche among Republican-leaning voters. He has still been unable to shake the “low-energy” stigma Mr Trump put on at him this summer.
That, Bush said, is ultimately up to the voters. “If you don’t like living by these American rules, then you need to go to the time-out room in any one of your Towers, sit there, and think about what you’ve said”.
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Continetti predicted at the end of the segment that the other GOP candidates will soon start attacking Trump as the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary draw closer. (Massachusetts voters get to weigh in on “Super Tuesday”, March 1.) For whom will you vote to be your party’s standard bearer?
