Bush has a Moment of ‘Self-therapy,’ Calls Trump ‘a Jerk’

“Who is he kidding?”

Bush, for his part, says he’s stepping up his criticism on Trump now because Trump is displaying shallow ideas on foreign policy. He isn’t the first GOP presidential candidate to swing at Trump, but was perhaps the most aggressive in Tuesday’s debate. But in the final quarterly gathering of Bush donors held earlier this month, campaign representatives attempted to reassure stakeholders that Jeb will emerge as a formidable contender once other candidates begin to leave the race in early 2016. Bush said, referencing Trump’s garbled answer on modernising the nuclear triad intercontinental ballistic missiles, strategic bombers and submarine-launched ballistic missiles. “He has no clue”. On Thursday, Bush told CNN’s John Berman that the approval Trump received from Vladimir Putin this week was a nod that he himself would not have wanted to receive.

Trump leads in another national poll released by Public Policy Polling. Bush is competing with Kasich, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Florida Sen.

His nearest Republican rival Ted Cruz is at 18%, who is followed by Marco Rubio with 11% and Ben Carson at 9%. “A guy like that should not be the front-running candidate of our great party – that is not how we win”. Similarly, Jeb is barely a factor in the following two primaries, which will take place in New Hampshire and SC, respectively.

According to it, Trump has the support of 34 percent Republican voters. “That wouldn’t be one of those things that naturally comes to him”, Bush said.

Trump then called Bush “weak & ineffective” before accusing his opponent of false advertising in a recent attack ad.