Jeb Begs Low-Energy Crowd — ‘Please Clap’

US Presidential candidate Jeb Bush begged his audience to clap for him in New Hampshire on Tuesday.

Sanders is expected to do well in New Hampshire, with most polls showing the Vermont senator with an average lead of 15 points.

“I will not trash talk”, Bush said at the event in Hanover, N.H., a day after finishing a distant sixth in the Iowa caucuses. I won’t be a divider-in-chief or an agitator-in-chief.

“I won’t be out there blow-hardin’, talkin’ a big game without backing it up”, he continued, inconsistently dropping his G’s.

The scene unfolds as follows: Bush was addressing the audience by saying, “My pledge to you, I will be a commander-in-chief that will have the back of the military”.

“Please clap”, he pleaded, drawing applause and awkward laughter.

Bush won just 5,238 votes in the crunch ballot, which is the first time Americans cast a vote in the long process of electing a president.

“Please clap”, he continued in a “defeated” response to the crickets, before the crowd laughed – and then, finally clapped. The lights went off two more times during the event.

“Apparently the hotel was having issues with its electricity”, MSNBC’s Joy Y. Wang reported.

Trump, who has accused Cruz of “fraud” after Monday’s result in Iowa, previously labelled Bush a “low energy” Republican candidate and used a mocking video to promote his rival as a “sleep-aid”.