Bush: Uncertain I would have attended Paris climate summit

He’ll continue visiting other cities in Iowa on Tuesday. “Jeb Bush has been doing nothing but losing throughout this entire campaign”, he wrote.

He didn’t shy away from speaking about hot button issues such as immigration and fighting ISIS.

It also includes a variety of backers of the Bush family over the years, such as Brad Freeman, who was a leader in George W. Bush’s finance efforts in his successful 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns, and Don Evans, who was George W. Bush’s commerce secretary.

Among them government programs, the tax code and hot button topic, the Syrian refugee crisis.

While waiting in the buffet line shortly before the program began, Karolyn Kedley, of Andover, said she hasn’t fully decided who she’ll caucus for yet but likes the former governor.

Bush, 62, believes he is offering that alternative to other 2016 GOP presidential nomination hopefuls who “are trying to get attention the wrong way”. And while that may offer some measure of reassurance to the dwindling cadre of Jeb die-hards, I can’t imagine it’s what Jeb’s donor network wants to hear.

Smicker says that’s why the group welcomes candidate after candidate to visit.

“I think that’s ludicrous”, he said of the comment. “The addition of staff and regional field offices throughout the state allows us to build on what is already the best organization in the Republican field”.

“I’m not going to predict anything. I’ve never even seen a presidential candidate'”. “We measure ourselves by that goal alone.”Bush and his supporters are making the case that, in the wake of the November 13 attacks in Paris, voters will take another look his message of experience — which they hope will eventually overtake interest in outsider candidates such as Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.“The good news is the numbers arent slipping, and to me, theres been a vast improvement in the campaign, ” said Fred Zeidman, a Houston-based donor.

Smicker says, after Carly Fiorina visited in spring, the county has seen a steady procession of candidates come to visit.