Republican Voters Say the Clock Is Ticking on Jeb Bush's Would-Be Comeback
The State of the Bushes Heading Into Primary Season
Standing in a small middle-school gymnasium on a snowy New Hampshire morning, Jeb Bush listened and nodded as a man decked out in New England Patriots gear listed four separate reasons that the son and brother of former presidents may fail to follow the family into the White House.
There was (1) Bush's support for Common Core, the education standards that have become anathema to the conservative base of the party, and (2) his call to legalize many of the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants at a time when the Republican front-runner, Donald Trump, says he'd deport them all. There's (3) the anxiety among voters about a third Bush president and (4) the “low energy” criticism from Trump that the former Florida governor has been unable to shake.