Jeb Bush says Trump ‘uninformed,’ not a serious candidate

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush says he would support Donald Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton for president, but claims Trump is “not a serious candidate”.

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, the Republican frontrunner said, “I saw it. So many people saw it …”

Donald Trump stuck to his disputed claims that thousands of New Jersey Muslims publicly celebrated the September 11 attacks, declaring Sunday, “I’m not going to take it back”. “I’m pretty confident that the more they hear of him, the less likely he’s going to get the Republican nomination”.

Trump cut in to say people were saying in Sarasota, Florida over the weekend they were in New Jersey at the time also saw Arabs cheering the deadly terrorists attacks. And many people saw it in person. “I’ve had hundreds of phone calls to the Trump Organization saying, ‘We saw it. It was dancing in the streets'”.

Bush said, “I think he’s uninformed”. Now, by the way The Washington Post I tried to pull back, but the Washington Post reported tailgate parties and reports of tailgate parties. I stick by it. Hundreds of people have confirmed it.

But he quickly rejected NBC anchor Chuck Todd’s assertion that “this didn’t happen in New Jersey”.

“You’re running for president of the United States”. And that’s fine. But you have a huge Muslim population, between Patterson and different places and Jersey City, an unbelievable large population.

When the Trade Center came down, it was done all around the world. Truthfulness matters. Fact-based stuff matters.

“You can have the most wonderful product in the world, but if people don’t know about it, it’s not going to be worth much”.

The controversy could be starting to hurt Trump, who has dropped 12 percentage points in the polls in the past five days, according to Reuters/Ipsos opinion polling of Republican voters nationally.

John Kasich repeatedly talked about how risky and divisive Donald Trump is this morning, but refused to give a straight answer to the question of whether he would support Trump if he was the GOP nominee.

“Take it easy. Chuck, just play cool”.

“I have it upon a certain amount of knowledge – I’m very friendly with a lot of people on both sides – that Obama’s plan is 200,000 to 250,000”, Trump said.