Jeb Bush shadowed by brother’s foreign policy controversies

“Donald Trump can not win 270 electoral votes”.

Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, right, and Republican presidential candidate, Sen.

The 43rd president already had announced plans to campaign for his younger brother Monday in SC, marking his most direct entry into the 2016 race to date, when Trump, the GOP front-runner, used the final debate before the state’s February 20 primary as an opportunity to excoriate George W. Bush’s performance as commander in chief. Regarding Planned Parenthood, Trump has stated while campaigning for president that he supports defunding it – but when pressed it is far from clear he supports defunding more than the “abortion aspect” of the nation’s largest abortion provider.

“There’s no other way to describe that – it’s a lie”, said Rubio in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” on Sunday. “That’s the definition of it. On this campaign, he is saying things that are not true, and he’s saying it repeatedly, and he knows they’re not true”.

The following day, Rubio reiterated the line of defense at a town hall in Easley when a voter raised Trump’s criticism, insisting:”George W Bush kept us safe and we are forever indebted to him for what he did …”

“The World Trade Center came down during your brother’s reign, remember that”, he said to brother Jeb!.

One of the more puzzling moments was when Trump brought up – unprompted – his support for eminent domain, something that’s put him at odds with many Republicans and has been a frequent point of attack from his GOP rivals. It is a culture Bush knows well, having been governor of Florida and growing up the son of a Texas congressman (who later become Central Intelligence Agency director, vice president, and president). Yet the Republican race remains deeply uncertain, with party elites still hoping that one of the more mainstream candidates will rise up to challenge Trump and Cruz. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). “Part of it was related to the need to make sure people knew that Donald Trump is not a conservative and he got angry and, you know, kind of lost it a little bit”, Bush told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program. Trump’s shrug that followed could have appeared distinctly Soviet to Bush.

George Bush retains wide appeal among Republicans, from evangelicals to chamber of commerce business leaders and retired members of the military.

If Donald Trump has been insane like a fox -and how else can one explain his ability to translate boorish behavior and lack of policy chops into sustained media coverage and successes in national polls – then things took quite a turn at Saturday’s GOP presidential debate, when he was often acting just plain insane.

CBS averaged a 9.3 household rating in Nielsen’s metered markets, surpassing the 8.9 rating for last Saturday’s Republican debate on ABC.

“I thank God all the time it was George W Bush in the White House on 9/11 and not Al Gore”, proclaimed Rubio, a former ally-turned-political rival of Jeb. Jeb Bush’s family is rallying around his last-ditch effort to salvage his presidential campaign and win the Republican primary in SC on Saturday. Reasonable people can disagree, but that has certainly been enough for the vast majority of Republicans to give Bush the benefit of the doubt. As Jeb Bush looks to continue his family’s winning streak on Saturday in the first southern primary, his campaign is becoming an all-hands-on-deck family affair. McCain adopted a child from Bangladesh. Traditionally, ex-presidents are viewed far more favorably as time passes; both Jimmy Carter and George HW Bush have experienced dramatic improvements in their popularity with the American public.

SC was where Bush and Rubio — the teacher and the student in their Florida statehouse days — were supposed to go head-to-head. Last week, Jeb Bush touted the endorsement of Iris Campbell, the widow of former South Carolina Gov. Carroll Campbell, a national co-chairman of previous Bush presidential campaigns.

There was the issue of eminent domain. “I think there will be a lot of interest in what he has to say”.