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Finally finished, Bush exhaled with a laugh: “I gave myself therapy there”, he joked.

The governor’s frustration with Trump has fumed from passing annoyance to focused attack even as Trump continues to surge in national polls while Bush languishes in single digits.

“I’ve got to get this off my chest: Donald Trump is a jerk”, Bush said, unprompted, between answering two voters’ questions. At some point in the evening he even starts calling Bush “Jeborah”, claiming that Bush’s birth certificate says he’s a woman. The approach was on display in last Tuesday’s Republican debate in Las Vegas, where Mr Bush repeatedly needled Mr Trump, irritating the real estate magnate.

On Sunday Trump predicted that Bush will soon exit the Republican presidential race, saying that “he’s going to be off the stage soon”.

“You can not insult your way to the presidency”, he said.

She hosted Bush, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and South Carolina Sen. “A guy like that should not be the front-running candidate of our great party – that is not how we win”.

“I worry greatly that the rhetoric coming from the Republicans, particularly Donald Trump, is sending a message to Muslims here in the United States and literally around the world that there is a ‘clash of civilisations, ‘ that there is some kind of Western plot or even ‘war against Islam, ‘ which then I believe fans the flames of radicalisation”, she alleged. New Hampshire is the second state to vote, on February 9, eight days after the Iowa caucuses. “I totally get it”.

Last Saturday, Mr Bush planned a packed schedule of four townhall-style meetings, meant to show his stamina and resolve.

Bush’s outburst followed Trump’s comments on Twitter on Friday that the former Florida governor was “dumb as a rock”. Bush told him not to doubt his commitment.

A recent retiree who lives in nearby Stratham, N.H., Donlevie was among about 200 people who showed up to hear Bush at a town hall here Saturday. He has still been unable to shake the “low-energy” stigma Mr Trump put on at him this summer. It’s silly, probably offensive stuff, but it’s exactly what we’d expect out of Trump’s mouth. Other Republican candidates hardly figured in the debate, thus reflecting that all of them consider him as their main rival.