Jeb Bush should apologize for anchor babies comment: He pulled a Trump

Emily Benavides, a spokeswoman for the Bush campaign who also worked for the HLN back when the memo was published, emphasized the candidate’s comments about his personal experience with the immigration issue and his commitment to pursuing reform in an email to HuffPost.

Bush reminded attendees that Trump once advocated a tax on people who had more than $10 million in assets, according to CNN.

Trump, who’s been slamming Bush for weeks, fired off another tweet Friday morning hitting him for the flip-flop and clearly reveling in the extent to which the candidate long thought to be the party’s front-runner seems to be responding to him.

“Mr. Trump doesn’t have a proven conservative record”, he told the Merrimack gathering. “He isn’t”.

Such overtures are giving Bush the chance to develop goodwill among activists and donors aligned with the tea party, a small-government movement that came to prominence two years after Bush left office in 2007.

“No, I don’t. I don’t regret it”, he said, exasperated. “Ya know what? Give me a different term”.

If there is any solace for Bush’s team, it’s that he’s not alone. Libertarian hero, Kentucky Sen. Bush should be the classier GOP contender that he is.

Trump seized on the news on Friday, blasting his rival on Twitter. “You give me a better term and I’ll use it”, he testily told a reporter who questioned him. This was Trump’s first New Hampshire town hall meeting, and the place was crackling.

A late entrant, Kasich is winning buzzed-about endorsements and has shot up in the polls here amid a multimillion-dollar ad campaign by his allied super PAC, New Day for America. “As we get into the fall and winter and people actually start making their decision and the paid element of this campaign begins, that’s going to pay dividends”.

The idea that pregnant women are crossing the Mexican border in droves in an effort to make their babies American citizens is mostly untrue, so it’s fitting that this week’s debate over the so-called problem has already morphed into a less substantial dispute over the term “anchor babies“.

LLAMAS: Now, both Trump and Bush are facing tough questions about the term anchor babies, used to try American-born children of undocumented immigrants, implying parents have children to anchor themselves in the U.S.so they’re not deported.

Bush says he believes people born in the United States should “be American citizens”.

Posturing aside, there’s a larger issue at play; the controversial term that Bush, Trump and other conservatives are parading around is basically myth, writes The Washington Post’s Janell Ross.

Despite his family ties to the Latino community, Bush is off base.

“Is that a contradiction?” he said.

“You want me to say that?”

While Jeb has insisted that “I am my own man”, he has struggled to emerge from his brother’s shadow. “I’m blessed to have a brother that loves me and wants to help me, over and out”.