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His supporters say they were reassured by his performance. Jeb Bush didn't try to beat Marco Rubio. He set a lower bar: shooting to best his own panned past debate performances. And he succeeded, as top supporters declared a solid, mistake-free night in Milwaukee enough to wrap a "tourniquet" on a campaign that been bleeding since the last debate two weeks ago. "There's always nervous Nellies in every campaign," said former Sen. Mel Martinez, a Bush supporter spinning for the campaign in Milwaukee. "If they needed it, tonight certainly should have reassured them." "Thank God. He stopped the bleeding tonight,”...

O'Reilly asked Kirsten Powers her first and second choice of the Republican lineup. She said her first choice was Rubio and her second choice was Bush.....lol

In the run-up to tonight's debate hosted by Fox Business, Google Trends finds that the most searched question about former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is, "Is Jeb Bush still running for President?" Bush's poll numbers have dropped since the second debate and relaunched his struggling campaign in early November. He currently sits in fifth place in the RealClearPolitics average of national polls at 6 percent, and sixth on the Washington Examiner's presidential power rankings. The most-asked question on Google searched about Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is, "Why do Republicans hate Ted Cruz?", followed by "Was Ted Cruz born in Canada?"...

The current GOP presidential nomination cycle has received an unprecedented amount of media coverage due to the celebrity nature and historic depth of the field. While the exhaustive analysis has created a sense that the race is entering a mature stage, history tells us it's only just getting started. At this early juncture, it's important not to confuse the flavor of the month with a viable candidacy. Early polls act as a sort of superficial popularity contest, a referendum on the current political establishment. Americans are fed up with the current regime in Washington, and who can blame them. By...

orget the French. It is us Jeb Bush should be apologizing to, not the French. After all, it is the American people who have been forced to witness Bush's increasingly embarrassing campaign for president, not the French. Talk about lame. Besides, the French do not vote in our campaigns, as Bush nemesis Donald Trump mockingly pointed out Read more: http://www.lowellsun.com/peterlucas/ci_29096491/peter-lucas-jebs-campaign-got-throne-loss#ixzz3r6zJ1umx

"As revenge for their 'boy' becoming his own man, Mike Murphy intends to destroy Sen. Marco Rubio." Here is something you need to know to this morning - Jeb Bush's Super PAC ads have been terrible. They have not helped Jeb Bush at all. In fact, more Republican primary voters say they would never vote for Jeb Bush than say the same about Donald Trump. Here is something else you should know - Team Bush premised his strategy on keeping Sen. Marco Rubio out of the race. Bush announced early that he intended to run, then stockpiled his Super PAC...

Back in the early days of the 2014 football season, the Green Bay Packers were 1-2. Fans were upset. Head management started updating their resumes. Things were not looking good. After receiving a loss at the hands of the Detroit Lions — yes, you can understand the Pack’s frustration — quarterback Aaron Rodgers told the cheesehead faithful to "R-E-L-A-X." Rodgers calmly told the media and Green Bay nation everything will be all right. And he was right. The team finished 12-4, captured first place in the NFC North and went to the NFC Championship. Now, segueing back into an arena...

<p>He didn’t randomly volunteer this information, I should note. It’s a reply to a specific question inspired by a recent feature in the New York Times. If he had randomly volunteered it, that would have been weird.</p> <p>But also a little bit awesome.</p>

So this is the world we live in now. Asked by the Huffington Post whether he would go back in time and kill baby Hitler, Jeb Bush said, "Hell yeah, I would! You gotta step up, man." But do you? Should you? Given certain assumptions, killing baby Hitler isn't a hard question. Assume that going back in time merely eliminates Hitler, and that the sole effect of that is that the Nazi Party lacks a charismatic leader and never takes power in Germany, and World War II and the Holocaust are averted, and nothing worse than World War II transpires...

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.

The more that Republican voters hear about Ben Carson, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, the more they like them. Jeb Bush, not so much. A new McClatchy-Marist poll conducted from Oct. 29 through Nov. 4 found that Carson has the most appeal as voters are more exposed to him, with 67 percent expressing that favorable view, and 20 percent saying they have a less favorable view the more they hear about the retired neurosurgeon. Rubio comes in second at 58 percent to 27 percent, followed by Cruz with 51 percent to 31 percent. But the news isn’t as good for...

After struggling to gain traction in the 2016 race, Jeb Bush's campaign announced last week it is relaunching the campaign. It appears his super PAC is doling out some significant cash to encourage the campaign to lift-off. According to independent expenditure disclosures that we spotting on Sunlight's Real-Time Federal Campaign Finance tracker, it appears Right To Rise USA is doubling down and going after the Republican base by placing more than $6.6 million dollars in ads exclusively on the Fox News Channel. The super PAC spent $18,932 producing those commercials, which were placed by a Virginia-based firm known as Oath...

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. It will mark the first time Walker has appeared publicly with a Republican presidential candidate since he dropped out of the race on Sept. 21. Hispanics for School Choice announced the joint appearance Friday.

(CNN)There's a new Jeb Bush on the campaign trail: More combative with his rivals, fired up in his speeches, looser and candid with reporters. The full-scale reboot -- on display last week in New Hampshire and expected in Tuesday night's debate in Wisconsin -- is meant to transform a self-described introvert not naturally inclined to dramatic flair into a candidate who can compete with outsized personalities like Donald Trump and political up-and-comers like Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. Aides and supporters describe Bush as a tough and determined campaigner, whose civil demeanor shouldn't be mistaken for a lack of...

Officials with the group "Hispanics for School Choice" say former Florida Gov. and Republican candidate for president Jeb Bush will join Gov. Scott Walker for an event in Waukesha on Monday, November 9th - one day before the Milwaukee GOP debate at the Milwaukee Theatre. According to HFSC officials, the event is intended to "highlight education reforms and visit with charter and private school students and their families, who participate in the state's school choice program.

Republican senators are coming around to the view that Jeb Bush is unlikely to win the party's nomination for president and that freshman Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) is the most viable prospect for the general election. Rubio has had plenty of support among Beltway pundits since the outset of his campaign but Bush's poor performance in the last Republican debate, together with his declining poll numbers, have begun to shift sentiment in even the upper echelons of the GOP's establishment. "Marco's in the driver's seat. There's a lot of disappointment in Bush's performance," said one Republican senator, who requested anonymity...

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. Bush launched a "Jeb Can Fix It" tour intended to reboot his faltering presidential campaign in the crucial primary state after several missteps, notably a subpar debate performance. Bush has been to New Hampshire 17 times over the last two years, for a total of 30...

Mark Levin isn’t talking about it. Sean Hannity isn’t talking about it. Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham are not talking about it, yet it remains one of the biggest structural benefits to Team Jeb Bush in the 2016 primary presidential race: Frustrated Conservatives Leaving The Republican Party Reince-Priebustrump vs bush Independent political registration is the fastest growing base of electoral voters, and that plays nicely into the hands of the GOPe who are working diligently to avoid accountability for their progressive agenda. Multiple states have what’s called “closed primary” races. Meaning only those voters registered with a party, who has...

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will appear with Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush for an event to promote school choice. The Nov. 9 event is hosted by Hispanics for School Choice at La Casa de Esperanza in Waukesha. The group says Walker and Bush will meet with charter school and private school students.

Politico has rewritten the headline, lede, and several portions of the text of an article accusing Ben Carson of "fabricating" part of his personal biography involving the Military Academy at West Point. The story, bearing the byline of reporter Kyle Cheney, now omits the original version's declarations that Carson's statements were false or fraudulent, as seen in an archive of the article.