Barbara Bush campaigns for son Jeb in NH

At yet another town hall event, this time in New London, New Hampshire, Jeb Bush tells the crowd to focus on the First in the Nation Primary and not what happened in Iowa.

“But he’s not a bragger – we don’t allow that – but he’s decent and honest”, she said.

Polling following Monday’s Iowa caucuses showed Trump retaining a double-digit lead in New Hampshire with U.S. Senator Marco Rubio rapidly rising into second place.

A Detroit News reporter obtained the conference call information and dialed in to listen to remarks by Bush, Schuette and state Rep. Andrea LaFontaine, a Jeb Bush supporter from St. Clair County. “You’re givers, you’re great, just wonderful to be here and with the world’s nicest man”.

Over the the next 90 minutes he was unafraid to address the political dynasty to which he belongs, referring often to his father, George H.W. Bush, and his brother, George W. Bush. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. “You can see it on the stump in how often he talks about Judeo-Christian values…”

“I don’t know how women can vote for someone who said what he said about Megyn Kelly”, she said.

More recently, though, he’s stopped running from his family’s name and begun running towards it. His mother, Barbara, is set to campaign with him in New Hampshire on Thursday.

“She speaks her mind frankly, and people in New Hampshire like that”, said Steve Duprey, a Republican National Committee member from the state.

“It was clear Governor Bush was cracking a joke with the audience, who laughed and enjoyed the humor”, Kristy Campbell said.

“I’ve learned that the presidency is a public leadership position, where you have the power to communicate and you got to do it”, he said. “His dad and I are very, very proud of him”.

On Wednesday, the Vermont Senator was speaking to a crowd of supporters in New Hampshire when Sanders rushed to the aide of one man in attendance who fell hard to the floor.

Donald Trump ran a much more cost-effective race in Iowa, leveraging the fact that he generates free media attention the way Iowa generates ethanol.

Thursday’s appearance by the Bush matriarch came at the same time the super PAC backing Bush’s campaign released a television ad featuring the candidate’s brother, former President George W. Bush. “Others think he’d make a wonderful president”.