Trump and Bush trade blows in New Hampshire

“You give me a better term and I’ll use it”, Bush snapped at reporters. “He’s going down like a rock”, Trump said to laughter.

“You know what’s happening to Jeb’s crowd?” he asked at one point.

The Republican presidential front-runner took on an array of subjects and political figures during a lengthy interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Wednesday, including Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, Pope Francis and even Caroline Kennedy.

But speaking at a VFW town hall event in Merrimack, New Hampshire, today, Jeb! felt perfectly comfortable in deciding what is and what isn’t offensive to a majority of Latino immigrants.

Quinnipiac also tested how Trump could affect the race if he runs as an independent.

Bush on Wednesday criticized Trump’s immigration platform, arguing that it’s “not a conservative plan” because it would cost tens of billions of dollars to carry out. Trump then said: ‘I’d say “ISIS wants to get you“. Bush added: “I think we need to tone down the rhetoric a little“.

“We have to have flexibility”, he said. The difference between Trump and Bush was within a 4.5 percentage-point margin of error for the Republican portion of the poll. “I’m a proven conservative with a record; he isn’t”. The latest Florida poll surveyed surveying 1,093 voters, including 477 Republicans and 345 Democrats.

The key question is whether Hispanic voters who might otherwise have been willing to vote Republican in 2016 end up supporting the Democratic nominee as a result of the immigration debate among Republicans.

Bush has also backed Common Core educational standards, a position at odds with many GOP voters.

“Look: The language is pretty vitriolic, for sure”, he said.

Democrats have been quick to pounce on Bush’s “anchor babies” comment to paint him as out of step with the mainstream. Excuse me. Reporter: We have new polls.

President Obama lamented the loss of three Washington state firefighters killed in the line of duty. But both Bush and Rubio have clear strengths over Trump that could prove decisive over the long haul.

Clinton’s momentum, meanwhile, was described by poll runner Peter A. Brown as a “leaky faucet”. Clinton, however, is still the frontrunner for both the Democratic nomination and the general election.

Bush, who held his announcement speech in Miami and featured numerous Spanish speakers, had joined fellow Floridian Marco Rubio as a change for the Republican Party who had dismally failed to win over Hispanic voters in 2012. George. Boy, trump is defining this race right now.

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