That’s Bush’s hardest slap at Trump to date.
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The people that Bush, Trump, and their fellow Republicans are demonizing are children. “The knock against Jeb is that he’s low voltage and not willing to fight”. “And ultimately, they’re people“.
It’s a change from Bush’s approach to this point.
“Trump is taking it to Jeb and others, bully-like”, the donor tells the Post. John McCain’s war service and his attacks against Fox News’s Megyn Kelly.
Bush took aim at past positions Trump has held. Trump has called Common Core a “disaster.”
The détente ended this week.
In other words, the very voters they need when, they hope, Trump fades.
Jeb Bush appears at an event in Barrington, New Hampshire on August 7, 2015.
Trump’s dominance of the debate was highlighted yesterday, when Bush found himself being pressed by reporters who questioned his use of the term “anchor babies“-which he picked up from Trump, who is suddenly making birthright citizenship an issue. Give me a different term”. “He was a Democrat longer in the last decade than he was a Republican“.
If the conventional wisdom is right, many Republican voters are enjoying their Trump flirtation, but will get more serious as the caucuses and primaries to select an actual commander-in-chief draw closer.
He even opened up about his own children’s mixed heritage saying, “I’m proud of the fact that my kids have a Mexican-American mom”.
Curiously, Trump responded to a reporter Wednesday in almost the exact same fashion Bush did.
While they lead the race for the nominations, Clinton and Trump have the worst overall favorability ratings among all voters of any of the leading candidates and the lowest scores for being honest and trustworthy, the poll found.
Moments earlier, Bush pushed for an end to divisive rhetoric. The ad started with Trump stating he’s preference to using “anchor baby” than “undocumented”.
Still, this is a words-mean-something issue.
Bush grew testy with a reporter on Thursday, who asked if he regretted using the term in a radio interview.
Other candidates have embraced hitting Trump.
The GOP’s own autopsy of the 2012 campaign, in which Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney urged Latinos in the country illegally to “self deport”, made that clear.
Trump’s 6-point deficit against Clinton was the same as Walker’s deficit against Clinton in the new poll.
Bush and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) have both said that beefing up border security and enforcing current laws could make altering the 14th Amendment irrelevant. Sen.
“Here’s the deal, what I said was that it’s commonly referred to that – that’s what I said“. “There’s 25 percent of the Republicans who are entertained by Donald Trump”. Innocent children who did not get to choose where they were born. Yet some Florida spending grew under Bush’s watch, a time of economic growth just before the recession began.
Hence the Bush team’s new “we’re the rightmost” strategy.
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“We spend more money by many, many times than anybody else”, Trump said.
