Jeb Bush Campaigns With Mom in New Hampshire

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

Once viewed as a near-inevitable nominee, Mr Bush has failed to energise voters and his campaign has become a punchline.

“I think for Jeb Bush to move on he has to be in the top three in New Hampshire”, he said.

Asked if Bush’s attacks against Rubio will hurt the “establishment” lane in the Republican race, as some critics have argued, Bush argued that politics is a contact sport.

Bush said it wasn’t true, but said he was glad he wasn’t in a war of words with Christie.

“I know you guys want to go back to doing whatever you were doing before and that campaigns need to be over just like this- Poof”, he told reporters Tuesday night in Hanover. “I called Donald Trump a jerk when he disparaged people with disabilities, it’s just not right”.

The candidate pledged to continue on to SC, no matter the results.

Rubio is now in a strong second place spot in New Hampshire, according to a poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire for CNN and WMUR that was released Wednesday night.

Christie’s critique of Rubio didn’t just stop at his supposed lack of experience as a freshman senator, but also pushed at a deeper critique-that senators in general are not as fit as governors to be president because they lack executive experience. And I eventually found some Rubio supporters.

It might make little sense at first glance that precious resources are being deployed in the Republican presidential contest to pound the third-place candidate.

“You hear all the negativity and people vilifying one another, even in their own party, and Gov. Kasich’s been above the fray”, said Dave Luchsinger, an independent voter from Greenland, New Hampshire.

The four-way tussle among Rubio, Kasich, Christie and Bush is heated, because the stakes are high. The two candidates have refrained from attacking each other and have both focused on the freshman senator.

“Not a bit. In fact, here’s a picture of the Governor of Florida”, Bush said.

Ted Cruz clinched a pretty clear victory in Iowa and will be looking to continue his winning streak in New Hampshire.

Page said she came to the Chris Christie rally in Henniker to narrow down her choices. Though she only spoke for two minutes, she touted his temperament and ability to make the tough decisions required for the job.

The other, and more substantive reason why Bush should drop out is that his continued candidacy means he will have to vie most competitively with Rubio for potential voters going forward. Trump will likely return to his loud, overbearing method of debating in an attempt to be memorable before the New Hampshire primaries. “And the week after that I’ll be in Nevada”, he said. But my campaign’s not about the past, about what we did. “This is the long haul”.