Bush slams Trump; defends use of `anchor babies’ term

But Bush later challenged reporters inquiring about the incident to come up with a suitable alternative. “No, do you have a better term? You give me a better term and I’ll use it”, he snapped at a reporter. Bush was expected to discuss foreign policy, including his plan for combating Islamic militants. “I don’t see how he’s electable”, Trump taunted, as Bush spoke just miles away at his own New Hampshire town hall.

When the reporter offered child of undocumented immigrant, Trump replied, “I’ll use the word anchor babies“.

We’re unsure. On the one hand, it’s true that Trump has espoused Democratic policies in the past.

“I think what people are eventually going to vote for is a proven conservative leader that’s done it”, Bush said in a video of the event released by his campaign.

“No one has figured out how to handle Trump”, Republican former New Jersey governor Thomas Kean told The Washington Post.

Trump blasted Bush for the apparent flip-flop Friday.

Bush doubled-down on this notion, supporting the use of the term and by default, his Republican rival. According to Greg Chen, director of the American Lawyers Association, she writes, “The only thing that a so-called anchor baby can do to assist either of their undocumented parents involves such a long game that it’s not a practical immigration strategy”. Bush, who has raised more money the other GOP candidates and was seen as the likely front-runner for the nomination before Trump’s unlikely rise in the polls, has sought to portray himself as more moderate than candidates like Trump while also trying to appeal to his party’s staunchly conservative base.

Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who is also running for president, was asked about the term in a CNBC interview on Thursday.

After enduring and indirectly responding to Donald Trump’s political attacks on him, Jeb Bush finally addressed the former directly during a discussion in Keene, New Hampshire.

Porter Gifford/© Porter Gifford/Corbis Presidential candidate Donald Trump said he will keep using the phrase “anchor baby, ‘ despite critics” claim it is offensive. He told supporters at a VFW hall in nearby Merrimack that Trump is actually a Democrat in Republican clothes – noting that Trump once favored both a tax on people with more than $10 million in assets and a single-payer system for health care.

Jeb! Bush continued a family tradition this week: say something stupid, then say something even MORE stupid in an attempt to explain the first stupid thing. Hillary Clinton later offering up suggestions on Twitter, tweeting “How about babies, children or American citizens”.

The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution declares that babies born on U.S. soil are automatically full citizens.

“I think he’s very good“, Gregg said.