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MSNBC captured video of Jeb Bush asking a crowd to applaud him after wrapping up a stump speech at a New Hampshire hotel on Tuesday.

Jeb Bush expected to be On Top of the Polls. Instead, he's heading for On Top of the World. The former Florida governor visits the Marion County retirement community on Monday desperate to boost his flagging campaign. Bush boasts a 3 percent share in the latest CNN national poll of Republican and Republican-leaning voters. That's 36 fewer percentage points than Donald Trump. Bush had ample money, experience and supporters when he launched his bid for the GOP presidential nomination. He seemed a lock to lead the pack, or at least be competitive, on the eve of the early primaries and...

During Tuesday's Republican presidential debate, the Washington Post's Matea Gold tweeted this bleak picture of a debate watch party for Jeb Bush in his home state of Florida:

From George Bush to his two political sons, the Bush family has always been squeamish about messy, personal attacks on rivals, preferring to outsource the dirty work to aides. But now, in an election cycle where the Republican Party's grass-roots wing is angry and looking for a presidential candidate who projects a visceral sense of their frustration, some of Jeb Bush's supporters say he may need to learn the fine art of negative campaigning. The Republican debate on Tuesday in Las Vegas provides Mr. Bush with a highly anticipated platform to forcefully take on his rivals.

Jeb Bush on Wednesday called Donald Trump "Barack Obama - the other version of it," as he campaigned in New Hampshire with a surrogate who's said he'd vote for Hillary Clinton over Trump. "It just sends a signal to the world that we're not serious," Bush told reporters after a young professionals event at St. Anselm College. He was making the point Obama has divided the country in a way that's similar to Trump.

The super PAC supporting Jeb Bush for president has produced a 15-minute documentary about the candidate, his platform and his record as Florida governor, according to The New York Times. Interviews with Bush and his wife Columba are featured in Right to Rise's documentary, according to the report, which will first be released Saturday online.

Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) said in an interview Monday that he would personally kill an infant Adolf Hitler. “Hell yeah I would,” he told The Huffington Post when asked about killing the Nazi leader as a baby.

Jeb Bush told reporters in Orlando on Monday that the Republican National Committee should still hold a planned primary debate with Miami-based Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo. "We should have the debate," Bush said in both English and Spanish. "I think we ought to have a Telemundo debate, or a Hispanic debate. It happened four years ago. Telemundo's not part of the problem of CNBC. They (CNBC) just didn't keep their word."

Jeb Bush campaign manager Danny Diaz got into a heated confrontation with a CNBC producer outside the debate as it was happening, according to two sources familiar with the incident. One of the sources said Diaz was complaining about speaking time allotments. A CNBC spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. “I expressed my displeasure about the way the debate was managed and the amount of time [we got],” said Diaz, who declined to comment further.

Jeb Bush, you can breathe a bit easier. Donald Trump has concluded you're no longer threatening enough that he feels the need to dump all over you. "I did talk about Jeb because I thought Jeb was going to be the front-runner," Trump told CNN’s "State of the Union" on Sunday. "Obviously, he's no longer the front-runner. I probably won't talk about him so much anymore." Having spent months mocking Bush for his low energy level, this line from Trump could be either a moment of rare sympathy from the real estate tycoon-turned-candidate, or the cruelest insult yet. The former...

Jeb Bush and his family 'are set to attend meeting that will consider the Republican 2016 hopeful's finances and his candidacy'. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush will reportedly be in Houston, Texas, for a finances meeting. CBS News reported that Bush, along with his brother and both of his parents, are going to be at the Sunday and Monday meeting. The website reported it is 'designed to assess where Bush's candidacy stands in the face of large-scale staff cutbacks and underwhelming poll numbers.'

Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) is slowly losing support among Republican voters in New Hampshire, according a new poll in the Granite State. Bush’s favorability rating s at its lowest level since last year and support for his 2016 GOP presidential bid has also fallen, according to the latest Bloomberg Politics/Saint Anselm New Hampshire survey. It found that he has 10 percent support among likely GOP presidential primary voters in the state. He previously received 11 percent last May. Bush ranks third in the Republican field, trailing front-runner Donald Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson. Trump receives 24 percent, while...

Jeb Bush is trying to capitalize off of Donald Trump’s attacks on his brother, former President George W. Bush, asking supports to donate to “fight back against Donald Trump.” “If you believe as I do that my brother kept this country safe and strong after those horrific attacks, then I need you to donate $5 and fight back against Donald Trump,” Bush’s campaign said in an email to supporters with a subject line reading, “Help defend my brother.”

Welcome to Trail Guide, your daily host through the wilds of the 2016 presidential campaign. It's Friday, Oct. 16, and this is what we're watching: Jeb Bush did not like Donald Trump's remarks about his brother.

During an appearance at a Jon Huntsman “No Labels” event, a female audience member named Lauren Batchelder played the role of a female antagonist toward candidate Donald Trump. ADVERTISEMENT However, Ms. Batchelder is not just an average audience member. She’s a paid political operative of the GOP and a paid staff member of Team Jeb Bush: NH 6 Within minutes of her scripted performance at the event, the producers of CNN were quickly editing soundbites and framing a narrative. That story was pushed into the media stream within hours. CNN’s Jeanne Moos was the delivery vehicle for the a hit...

Jeb Bush admitted Monday his views on immigration may not be "mainstream" in the Republican Party. But he praised the "vitality" of a multicultural society as other GOP presidential candidates find themselves in trouble over comments about minorities. "If we embrace a set of shared values, then it shouldn't matter if you have a 'z' at the end of your name, or your accent might be different, 'cause guess what? There are people in this country, that have accents different from mine and mine's different from theirs. It doesn't matter," Bush said to a roomful of Hispanics. The former Florida...

Call it empty seat syndrome. While Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump continues to draw overflow crowds by the thousands this week, Democratic race leader Hillary Clinton and one-time GOP front-runner Jeb Bush have seen their recent crowds dwindle along with their poll numbers. Bush, the one-time GOP front-runner who was deposed by Trump over the summer, drew only about 100 people to a recreation center in Summerlin, N.V., outside Las Vegas. It was the former Florida governor's first appearance following Wednesday night's prime-time national GOP primary debate, which brought record-high ratings for CNN. Also on Thursday, Clinton received a standing...

Three top Jeb Bush fundraisers abruptly parted ways with his presidential campaign on Friday, amid internal personality conflicts and questions about the strength of his candidacy, POLITICO has learned. There are different versions of what transpired. The Florida-based fundraising consultants — Kris Money, Trey McCarley, and Debbie Alexander — have said that they voluntarily quit the campaign and were still working with Bush's super PAC, Right to Rise Super PAC. Others said the three, who worked under the same contract, were let go because they were no longer needed for the current phase of the campaign. None of the three...

President Bush's son, Jeb, is looking for a maid who's a legal U.S. resident. A maid who had worked at Bush's Miami home for three years was deported back to her native Honduras last week. Bush was out jogging when immigration agents showed up so his wife, Columba, had to deal with them. "She indicated, `Yes, she works here,' brought the lady out, and the two agents showed her the deportation order,said Richard Smith, director of the INS's Miami office."