Bush lauds Trump’s business success, sticks to ‘jerk’ line

Jeb Bush on Tuesday kicked off his first trip of the year in New Hampshire, resuming his quest to make an epic comeback and relying heavily on the first-in-the-nation primary state to get him there.

“I’m on a positive journey, not one, ‘Oh, this is so tough, poor Jeb, this is so bad, ‘” the former governor said.

Turning more serious, Mr Bush said he admired some aspects of Mr Trump, such as his successful business record, although he said he thought Mr Trump might have exaggerated some of it, and to an extent liked his ability to speak his mind without resorting to politically correct statements.

That’s like 90% of the population, Bush joked.

“This is a national calling”, Bush said.

As president, I will join with other political leaders, educators and civic leaders to promote marriage as the most reliable route to family stability and resources.

Bush continues a steady pace of town halls across the Granite State as the campaign tempo and the rhetoric is heating up among the candidates. As governor of Florida, I saw first-hand how states could be the laboratories of democracy.

Dyar said the video clips of Trump, taken at a SC rally in November, infuriated him.

Asked whom he would consider in that five-way race, Bush said himself, Christie, Texas Sen.

Tying in reports that North Korea claims to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, Bush used Trump’s fumbling of a question over the nuclear triad – referring to nuclear weapon delivery systems – during last month’s GOP debate to raise questions about his ability to lead. The Republican front-runner also retweeted a supporter who claimed that Bush’s mother was a Trump supporter.

Bush also says he would “enact smarter sentencing laws” to reduce mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, while keeping stiff penalties for “drug lords, cartels and other violent drug traffickers”. “I could look them in the eyes and know that, as a mom or a dad or a spouse, that they were going through the same things”. The Huffington Post captured the talk and put the video online, where it has been watched more than 8 million times.

It’s that kind of in-person appeal that Bush and his advisers hope will propel him in the coming weeks as voters start making their final decisions.

Bush said that now no more than 40 percent of students are truly college or career ready. Health officials estimate that about 400 people died from overdoses in New Hampshire in 2015 – including heroin and the powerful opiate fentanyl – more than doubling its own rate of overdose deaths in 2013. “I can not tell you how that angered me”, he said.

“I’ve now come to a recognition that New Hampshire is probably do or die for Jeb“, the donor said.