Bush Brings In the Family
After months of struggling to make a positive, lasting impression, the once-favored establishment candidate in the GOP presidential primary is out with a new ad aiming to scare Republicans away from front-runner Donald Trump and back to their senses, with him as their only electable hope.
The Bush family has been a complicating factor throughout Jeb Bush’s candidacy, bringing him the advantages of an established political name and the vast network to match it, but making it hard for him to define himself apart from his father’s and brother’s White House legacies.
“I might bring them out for debate purposes”, he said, laughing.
As she speaks, the video shows footage of Jeb Bush campaigning.
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Even her subtle dig at Donald Trump is quarter-hearted at best. The reason why he attacks me is he’s scared of me, Bush told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday. People ask me if I wanted Jeb to run.
He often dons his personalized cowboy boots but these could be a ready-made replacement for the blustery New Hampshire and Iowa winters he encounters, as well as combating storms of other sorts.
“Not one of their executives is prosecuted, while kids who smoke marijuana get a jail sentence”, he said. Lacking in poll numbers, the late night host introduces his own girl group to help push up Bush’s popularity.
There is also concern that George W. Bush, a more natural and charismatic campaigner than Jeb Bush, could upstage his younger brother.
“People, there are people who think it’s a little odd for a third Bush to be president of the United States”, he added. Fine. You know who has higher expectations than the conventional wisdom? Me.