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Jeb Bush races to salvage presidential campaign
AFP Yahoo ^ | 1/9/16 | Michael Mathes

Posted on 01/09/2016 2:13:12 PM PST by jimbo123

Jeb Bush's US presidential bid is boiling down to early voting New Hampshire, some associates say, while others envision his protracted battle for the Republican nomination stretching deep into the spring.

Either way, supporters and analysts agree it will be difficult for Bush, a former Florida governor and son and brother of two presidents, to emerge as the nominee given American conservatives' current appetite for anti-establishment candidates and the roiling ethno-nationalism of erratic frontrunner Donald Trump.

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In private, according to one major donor and acquaintance, Bush has expressed exasperation at the state of the race, and how a bullying tycoon with a tenuous grasp of foreign policy has commandeered the primaries.

"He's said he can't quite understand this phenomenon," the donor, who spoke under anonymity so he could discuss the campaign more freely, told AFP.

It has been distressing, the donor said, for Bush "to see someone like Trump rewarded for so many intolerant, outrageous, false statements that he says all the time."

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"I've now come to a recognition that New Hampshire is probably do or die for Jeb," the donor said.

"I never would have thought that," he added. "But he has put so many resources into New Hampshire, it's like he's pushing all the chips into the center of the table."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bush; chamberofcommerce; deportjebbush; desinatedloser; election2016; florida; jebbush; jebbush2016
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1 posted on 01/09/2016 2:13:12 PM PST by jimbo123
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Pocket Turtle to the rescue!!


2 posted on 01/09/2016 2:14:29 PM PST by euram
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Pocket Turtle RACING to the rescue!!


3 posted on 01/09/2016 2:18:31 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: jimbo123

Nobody else thinks we need more Acts Of Love


4 posted on 01/09/2016 2:19:35 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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Slow and steady won’t win the race when headed the wrong way.


5 posted on 01/09/2016 2:20:27 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Cicero

Beat me to that. I was going to say “racing turtle,” but I like your phrase better.


6 posted on 01/09/2016 2:20:47 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: jimbo123

He’ll drop out and endorse Hillary.


7 posted on 01/09/2016 2:21:15 PM PST by Angels27
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Resurrecting the Jeb candidacy is rather like raising and re-launching the Titanic.

Sunken is sunken. No matter what.


8 posted on 01/09/2016 2:23:39 PM PST by alloysteel (If I considered the consequences of my actions, I would rarely do anything.)
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Jeb Bush races to salvage presidential campaign

His campaign is a Zombie. Shoot it in the head and bury it.

9 posted on 01/09/2016 2:24:07 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Angels27

A long, protracted struggle at 3%.


10 posted on 01/09/2016 2:24:16 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Angels27

That would not surprise me.


11 posted on 01/09/2016 2:29:52 PM PST by Gator113 (Happy New Year!)
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To: jimbo123

Eeyore racing? Hehehe


12 posted on 01/09/2016 2:30:54 PM PST by Bulwinkle (Alec, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
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To: jimbo123

Racing Turtles?


13 posted on 01/09/2016 2:31:03 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: thackney

14 posted on 01/09/2016 2:31:44 PM PST by jimbo123
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“Bush has expressed exasperation at the state of the race, and how a bullying tycoon with a tenuous grasp of foreign policy has commandeered the primaries.”

Trump knows more about foreign policy now than Jeb! will know the rest of his life.


15 posted on 01/09/2016 2:31:59 PM PST by Rennes Templar (I'm pro gun control: keep your guns under your control at all times.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Yes, it's time.
Stick A Fork In Him

16 posted on 01/09/2016 2:32:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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17 posted on 01/09/2016 2:33:48 PM PST by McGruff (Trump/Cruz 2016 - could happen)
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18 posted on 01/09/2016 2:36:58 PM PST by SamAdams76
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Just needs a little tweeking.


19 posted on 01/09/2016 2:37:08 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Islam is the greened eyed monster that doth mock the meat it feeds upon.)
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Heb, take yourself, W, Columba, and your fugly son and go back your home state of Connecticut and curse god and die.

There are only a couple places that need to be nuked off the face of the earth. Yours is one on them.


20 posted on 01/09/2016 2:39:49 PM PST by Original Lurker
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