Jeb Bush campaign cutting salaries, staff: Internal memo

Rubio is, and always has been, Bush’s main threat.

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is drastically slashing his campaign spending, including imposing an across-the-board pay cut for staff, as the one-time front-runner seeks to salvage his bid for the GOP nomination.

Information for this article was contributed by Julie Bykowicz of The Associated Press.

On Friday, Bush signaled to supporters he understood the need to make a change.

The campaign changes reflect that, anadviser said. Bloomberg reported that a few senior staff will be working on a volunteer basis, and the campaign plans to stop using a few consultants.

Just 24 hours after Jeb Bush downsized his campaign to fit his struggle in the polls, Bush tells America if they want to elect Trump, go right ahead.

They worry he may not be capable of doing so.

“The circumstances when we started the election were different”, Bush told Pat Robertson in an interview at Regent University hours after news of the shakeup broke. “We are who we are”. “Unless he does something like that, it’s going to be hard”.

“We will take every single step necessary to ensure Jeb is the Republican nominee and next president of the US”.

“Four years ago Herman Cain was the front-runner”.

Or he might himself joining Rick Perry and Scott Walker on the sidelines if he can’t figure out a way to reach voters.

“And he won the nomination”.

Gage Skidmore via FlikrGOP primaries have produced many promising candidates that sputtered out. And he is revamping his schedule to spend more time meeting with voters there and in Iowa, Nevada and South Carolina. A key test will be next week when he appears on stage with his rivals at the third Republican debate, in Boulder, Colorado.

The memo also emphasizes the financial health of the campaign, but the campaign’s weak polling and the stubborn resistance of poll numbers to the campaign’s efforts in places like New Hampshire can be seen as a dire sign. The retreat, which will involve contributors to both the Bush campaign and a pro-Bush super-PAC, has always been planned.

Over that long haul, though, those who are funding his campaign may disagree. He first answered that Marvel is itself a hero of capitalism (ugghhhhhhh) then said Batman, which is a bit of a faux pas but it’s not like the DC nerds were going to be voting for him anyway. His midyear report to the FEC showed a record $103 million raised for his super-PAC Right to Rise, which is not allowed to coordinate with the Bush campaign but can spend unlimited money on the candidate’s behalf.

Despite calls for Bush to get out of the race, the former Florida governor will likely stay in at least through the New Hampshire primary. According to an invitation, the event costs $10,000 to co-chair, $5,400 to host, $1,000 to sponsor or $500 to attend.

For more on this, read the article from the Huffington Post titled: “Jeb Bush Slashes Spending Amid Campaign Woes”.

In a presidential campaign cycle that has already seen stunning twists and turns, to see the presumed establishment front-runner, whose strength was based in part on his fundraising capacity, have to make these kinds of cuts, is one of the most surprising developments so far.