The Bush blame game begins

With Jeb struggling, supporters, staff and donors start pointing the finger at the super PAC's chief, Mike Murphy. They think he wasted money on everything from an iPad-sized video mailer to direct mail for donors in states that don't yet matter. They think his attacks on Marco Rubio are doing more harm than good. And they worry that, at the end, all he will have accomplished is the destruction of the Bush family brand.

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Anxious Jeb Bush Donors Await Signal It's Time To Move On

Jeb Bush, fresh off a record-breaking fundraising effort, celebrated in July with major donors at an exclusive two-day conference in Kennebunkport, Maine.  It was there the former governor boasted his $114 million hauls were "only the beginning." That was last year.

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Son of GOP Presidential Candidate, Jeb Bush, campaigns for his dad in Aiken

The son of Republican Candidate, Jeb Bush, made a stop in Aiken. George P. Bush spent part of his Saturday afternoon talking with voters at the Green Boundary Club. He says whenever he gets a chance he's out campaigning for his dad - focusing on the key points that he says make his dad the most qualified candidate to represent the Republican Party.

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Jeb Bush tapping former advisers to father and brother

Despite his earlier reluctance to appear as the next in line in the Bush dynasty, Jeb Bush is tapping his families' network of former aides and advisers in an early voting push.


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Jeb Bush is convincing donors the polls are wrong

Jeb Bush didn’t fix it. His attempted attacks on rivals have fallen flat. His $30 million in TV ads have failed to move his numbers. And now, with the Iowa caucuses less than two months away, he’s polling at a miserable 3 percent nationally. --But there’s one significant success that is keeping his campaign alive: Jeb Bush has convinced major GOP donors and supporters that the polls are wrong.

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Jeb Bush says he would support Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton

Jeb Bush would support Donald Trump if the real estate billionaire were to win the Republican presidential nomination, "because anybody is better than Hillary Clinton".

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What does Jeb Bush get for $20 million in TV ad buys? Not much.

Jeb Bush and his supporters have spent more than twice that of any other candidate or outside group on TV ads in the 2016 presidential race. And what does the former Florida governor get for nearly $20 million, asks Mark Murray of NBC News. --Apparently, not much.

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Bob Dole endorses Jeb Bush

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole has endorsed Jeb Bush for president and will serve as the former Florida governor's National Veterans Chairman, according to the campaign. --Dole said that while almost all of the candidates are his friends, he believes Bush is the most qualified.

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Jeb Bush backers prep for debate by leaking plans to destroy Marco Rubio

Aides to Jeb Bush and the super PAC backing him are so freaked out and betrayed by Sen. Marco Rubio's rise in the Republican presidential polls and Bush's decline, they are setting aside up to $20 million to sink Rubio's campaign and previewing an attack ad criticizing Bush's former protege as too extreme on abortion to get elected president, report Maggie Haberman and Michael Barbaro at The New York Times, citing at least three people "privy to" discussions and preparations in the Bush camp.

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Walker to appear with Jeb Bush to tout school choice

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will appear with Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at an event near Milwaukee touting school choice. --The event Monday comes the day before Bush participates in the next Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee.

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Bush's 'Jeb Can Fix It' tour appears to be changing few minds in New Hampshire

As Jeb Bush attempted to reintroduce himself to presidential primary voters in New Hampshire this week, the former Florida governor had a problem: Many had already met him. --"There's a whole negative air about Jeb amongst the people I know," said Myrna Greene, a retired school secretary who chairs the New Boston Republican Committee.

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Bush Campaign Targets Rubio as ‘GOP Obama’ to Donors

'Rubio and President Obama have strikingly similar profiles'
If there was ever any doubt, there isn’t anymore. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush sees the campaign of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as the major obstacle between himself and the White House, and he’s willing to take the fight to his former protégé.

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Jeb Bush Hopes for Reset Through New Tour, E-Book

In the wake of widespread campaign cuts and tumbling poll numbers, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is attempting to take control of his own narrative, quite literally, by releasing it online. His e-book, Reply All, a tome of his email from two terms as governor of Florida, will be released next Monday. The same week, Bush will also try to bolster a faltering campaign by launching a “Jeb Can Fix It” tour — all an effort to focus on his record as governor, an overarching principle of his campaign.

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Jeb admitted in his own book that 'leaky' immigration policy led to 9/11

Jeb admitted in his own book that 'leaky' immigration policy led to 9/11 – exactly what he said was 'pathetic' after Trump blasted his brother for failing to prevent it. --A new battlefield has emerged in the war of words between Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and the man he deposed in July, and this time it's Jeb Bush's own words that are coming back to haunt him.

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Bush has 'grave doubts' about Trump as commander in chief

Jeb Bush said Donald Trump discusses foreign policy like a reality show star and that support for the Republican front-runner will eventually wane. Bush also said he has little confidence in Trump's ability to appropriately handle America's nuclear weapons. --"I have grave doubts, to be honest with you," Bush told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview airing Sunday on "State of the Union."

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Jeb cuts back

On the first day of a two-day Iowa swing back in August, Jeb Bush flew from Davenport to Ankeny in a private plane. The next day, after he spent more than four hours bounding around the State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, a top adviser attributed Bush’s high energy level to having spent less time in transit. --Those days are over.

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Romney's path to nomination eludes Jeb

On paper, Jeb Bush’s 2016 campaign mirrors Mitt Romney’s 2012 efforts, but Bush faces a far steeper climb to the nomination, political watchers say. With three popular outsider candidates leading the race, rising establishment contenders and the failure to lock down any of the early-voting states so far, Bush is beset by burdens that never weighed on Romney.

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Team Jeb Bush Saturates the Airwaves

By now, you probably know that Jeb Bush and the Super PAC supporting him are spending the most on TV ads in the presidential contest. But you might not know the extent to which Team Jeb is actually saturating the airwaves in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Here is the ad-spending data, via NBC ad-tracking partner SMG Delta, for just this week alone (Oct. 4-10):

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Planning ahead: Jeb Bush reserves TV ad time in early primary states

Amid the concerns of top financial donors that he's lagging too far behind in polls, Jeb Bush signaled on Monday that he's got plenty of money in the bank to stay on the campaign trail leading up to next year's early primaries. The Bush campaign announced plans to reserve -- but not outright buy -- $7.8 million in television advertisement time in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina in January and February. By reserving time, a campaign is able to lock in a certain ad rate in advance and get first dibs on the best time slots before other campaigns and super PACs try doing the same thing at a later point.

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Bush to call for lifting of ban on U.S. crude oil exports

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush will call for a decades-old ban on exporting U.S. crude oil to be lifted in a speech next week that will lay out an aggressive approach to growing jobs in the energy sector.

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