Rubio: No One Should Drop Out Before New Hampshire

“New Hampshire”, he added to huge applause.

Barbara Bush said, “Jeb is the nicest, wisest, most caring, loyal, disciplined…He’s not a bragger – we don’t allow that”.

According to The New York Times, Bush tried his hand at firing up the crowd at a town hall yesterday near the Virginia border.

The billionaire’s front-runner status was pierced by a second-place finish to U.S. Senator Ted Cruz in Iowa, where Rubio’s strong third-place finish set him apart from the rest of the Republicans vying for the party’s nomination for the November 8 presidential election.

In Monday’s Iowa caucuses, Bush received slightly less than 3% of the vote.

The Bush campaign later identified the woman as Tara, a working mother who woke up at 4 a.m.to work a 12-hour shift so she could see the former governor of Florida speak.

Graham is a Bush supporter.

“I respect these people that are running”. The cameo came just a couple of weeks after she appeared in a campaign video for Bush as well.

It’s part of a strategy to make Bush the anti-Trump candidate in hopes that Republicans who oppose the top tier candidate will unite behind the former governor.

New Hampshire, however, is friendlier terrain for Bush.

“I think the press in a way have nearly killed Jeb’s campaign”, said David Stotler, a teacher from Sutton, New Hampshire. “He’s probably more disciplined and focused – I’m probably more cerebral”.

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, who had already labeled Bush a “low energy” candidate, slapped him with mock sleep-aid commercial posted to Instagram.

If one of those candidates separates himself from the rest of the establishment pack, others could face pressure to leave the race to consolidate support and build a stronger challenge to Trump and Sen. “Putin, the killer, Putin”, she said.

Sitting next to the former first lady in a joint interview with CNN Special Correspondent Jamie Gangel, Bush cautioned his mom when she was asked what she really thinks about the real estate titan.

Bush is under intense pressure to up his game, but the immediate challenge is to outperform establishment rivals Christie and Kasich in New Hampshire – in which case his campaign has every chance of remaining viable heading into the next contest, in SC.