Maturen, R-Vicksburg, was announced Thursday by Bush’s campaign office as more than 200 state leaders and residents to back the candidate.
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Jeb Bush responded Friday night to Donald Trump’s decision this week not to correct a questioner who said President Obama is a Muslim who is “not even an American”.
“Barack Obama is a talented man – and by the way, he’s American, he’s Christian”, Bush told a friendly crowd during his keynote address at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, a biennial island gathering hosted by the Michigan GOP.
It was one of several jabs Bush took at the real estate mogul who has catapulted past him to the top of the early polls in the race for the Republican nomination.
Bush told roughly 2,000 Michigan Republican activists on Mackinac Island: ‘I will commit to you that I will never violate my conservative principles. “We know our current president is one”.
Santorum suggested the press was blowing the Trump incident out of proportion. “If we elect the right nominee, it will go Republican next year”.
After Bush’s speech, a reporter asked directly whether he thought Trump should apologize. They are Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Rand Paul.
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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder opened the conference with brief remarks Friday afternoon.
