These days, the self-proclaimed “joyful tortoise” in the 2016 Republican presidential primary race, Jeb Bush, is sounding for like an irritated Snapping Turtle.
Bush, who has said that he would run clean campaign, and not attack his fellow Republicans in the race, is now targeting GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, signaling that he may feels threatened by the billionaire’s rise, and staying power atop of all the recent presidential polls.“We shouldn’t be scolding people. We shouldn’t be saying outrageous things that turns people off to the conservative message.”-Jeb Bush, Miami Herald
Bush held a pre-planned town hall meeting In New Hampshire, when Trump challenged him directly by orchestrating a simultaneous town hall meeting in an effort to show Americans who can draw the most people to their campaign events.
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Trump said, “because Bush draws so poorly, I figured it would be a good time to draw a crowd.”
Hands down, Trump won this contest, mustering up 1,000 people to hear his speak, as well as having the national media cover the event live.
So what did they to candidates say about one another during their respective events?Trump: “I don’t see how he’s electable… Jeb Bush is a low-energy person. For him to get things done is hard.”
Bush: “Mr. Trump doesn’t have a proven conservative record. He was a Democrat longer in the last decade than he was a Republican.. . .The language is pretty vitriolic for sure. But hundreds of millions of dollars to implement his [immigration] plans is not a conservative plan.”
The hot political issue in this presidential primary race continues to be illegal immigration. Trump has benefitted from the not-so-subtle-remarks he used to call out the Mexican government for their part in facilitating illegal immigration into the U.S., as well as addressing all the crimes that illegal immigrants commit before, during, and after they cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
On the issue of ‘anchor babies,’ Bush says that there out to be “greater enforcement” regarding pregnant woman coming into the U.S. simply to give birth so that they could benefit from having a U.S. born child.
“If there’s abuse, if people are bringing — pregnant women are coming in to have babies simply because they can do it, then there ought to be greater enforcement,” Bush said on Bill Bennett’s conservative radio show, “Morning in America” Wednesday. “That’s [the] legitimate side of this. Better enforcement so that you don’t have these, you know, ‘anchor babies’, as they’re described, coming into the country.”
Trump on the other hand is saying that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution needs to be interpreted in a different light.
“It’s a long process, and I think it would take too long. I’d much rather find out whether or not anchor babies are citizens because a lot of people don’t think they are.”
The big takeaway from this little “lucha libre” between Bush and Trump is that we can expect the “joyful tortoise” to go hard at Trump’s past as a Democrat, and we can expect Trump to counter-punch every single one of Bush’s barbs.
This campaign will be fun to watch.