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Former President Donald Trump has tapped a former staffer of then-Florida Governor Jeb Bush&#8217;s unsuccessful 2016 presidential bid to lead his efforts in New Hampshire in 2024.
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Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie suggested to an audience at St. Anselm’s College in New Hampshire on Monday that he may enter the 2024 presidential race to torpedo Trump.
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“You better have somebody on that stage who can do to him what I did to Marco because that’s the only thing that’s gonna defeat Donald Trump,” Christie said in reference to him going hard after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) during the debates. “And that means you gotta have the skill to do it and that means you have to be fearless because he will come back and right at you.”
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Former president George W. Bush wants conservatives to take a softer stance on immigration, and the left-wing media can’t get enough of it. During an interview with Norah O’Donnell that aired on CBS Sunday Morning, Bush called for Republicans “to be more respectful about the immigrant.” The United States takes in more immigrants each year than any other nation. Nearly one in five immigrants on earth ends up here. How much more &#8220;respect&#8221; can the U.S. display before she ceases to exist as a sovereign nation?
The leftist media lapped up Bush’s entreaty. “Remember this man?” asked CNN’s Fredo Chris Cuomo. “Remember why he believes this?” But the former president’s beliefs come as no surprise to those who remember that the Bushes have never been particularly conservative. The opportunistic media, which deplored Bush while he held office, now points to the former president as the conservative standard-bearer. In fact, the Bush family has represented the liberal wing of the Republican Party since 1952.
Prescott Bush, father and grandfather of future presidents, supported Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League and helped to launch Planned Parenthood, serving as the treasurer for the abortion mill’s first national fundraising campaign in 1947. After his election to the Senate in 1952, he voted to censure the anti-communist crusader Joseph McCarthy in 1954 and regularly associated himself with New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, at that time the face of liberal Republicanism.
Following in his father’s footsteps, George H.W. Bush also supported abortion and Planned Parenthood specifically during the 1960s and ‘70s. In 1970, Bush sponsored the pro-abortion Population Control and Research Act as a means of combatting the fictive scourge of “overpopulation.” He remained supportive of abortion up through his failed presidential bid against Ronald Reagan in 1980, during which he assailed Reagan’s more conservative views and even coined the term “voodoo economics” to describe some of them. Bush adopted more conservative positions after Reagan made him his running mate later that year, but he returned to his more liberal roots after Reagan left office in 1988, at which point the VP-turned-president promised a “kindler, gentler” type of conservatism. The slight did not escape Nancy Reagan, who reportedly <a href="https://www.aei.org/articles/common-ground-on-the-common-good/">asked</a>, “‘Kindler and gentler’ than whom?”
George W. Bush adapted his father’s rhetoric to his own White House bid eight years later, promising “compassionate conservatism” — as opposed, one infers, to the Right’s usual offering of heartlessness and cruelty. Although considerably to the right of his father, Bush tacked left on crucial issues, notably his advocacy of amnesty for 12 million illegal aliens. George’s brother Jeb(!) went even further during his own ill-fated presidential run in 2016, endorsing illegal immigration as “an act of love.”
I do not mean this trip down memory lane as an attack on the Bushes. The Republican Party comprises many disparate groups: traditional conservatives, libertarians, neocons, the Religious Right, and populists, among others. They band together because the various factions cannot harness a sufficient number of votes to win on their own. Sometimes the liberal wing takes the helm, as it did through the candidacies of Mitt Romney, John McCain, and the Bushes; at other times, the conservatives wrestle back influence within the party, as they did to at least some degree in 1980 and 2016. This week, the most famous living representative of the most prominent family in the GOP’s liberal wing criticized the party’s conservatives again. What else is new?
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Both former Republican Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) were among the first Republicans to congratulate Democratic nominee Joe Biden on Saturday upon news that establishment media projected him to win the presidency.
&#8220;Congratulations to President-elect Biden,&#8221; said Bush. &#8220;I have prayed for our President most of my adult life. I will be praying for you and your success. Now is the time to heal deep wounds. Many are counting on you to lead the way.&#8221;
Bush, who had been favored to win the 2016 Republican primary, bore the brunt of then-candidate Donald Trump&#8217;s attacks, who dubbed him &#8220;low-energy&#8221; and repeatedly mocked him as he plummeted in the polls.
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Congratulations to President-elect Biden. I have prayed for our President most of my adult life. I will be praying for you and your success. Now is the time to heal deep wounds. Many are counting on you to lead the way.
&mdash; Jeb Bush (@JebBush) <a href="https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/1325133897781243908?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Romney tweeted a similar reply, writing, &#8220;Ann and I extend our congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. We know both of them as people of good will and admirable character. We pray that God may bless them in the days and years ahead.&#8221;
Romney, who said <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/21/politics/mitt-romney-trump-vote/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">he did not vote</a> for Trump in 2020, also became one of his major adversaries. Trump often blasted the 2012 GOP nominee for failing to defeat former President Barack Obama, and the two continued to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/snubbed-mitt-romney-only-republican-senator-not-invited-to-trumps-council-on-restarting-the-economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">feud</a> after Romney was elected as Utah&#8217;s junior senator in 2018. Romney became the sole Republican senator to vote in favor of convicting Trump for abuse of power during his 2019 impeachment trial.
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Ann and I extend our congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. We know both of them as people of good will and admirable character. We pray that God may bless them in the days and years ahead.
&mdash; Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) <a href="https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1325142815354064896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Romney also <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mitt-romney-no-evidence-vote-fraud-0ac291da7ab09f6336d24290ef81f53b" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">scolded</a> Trump for claiming earlier in the week from the White House briefing room that the election was being stolen. Romney tweeted that it was &#8220;wrong to say the election was rigged, corrupt and stolen.&#8221; He maintained that Trump’s claim &#8220;damages the cause of freedom here and around the world &#8230; and recklessly inflames destructive and dangerous passions.&#8221;
The Trump campaign and its legal surrogates, by contrast, continue to assert that the election has yet to be decided.
Jenna Ellis, senior legal adviser to the president, said in a statement to the The Daily Wire:
<blockquote>Media coordinated efforts are attempting to simply declare Joe Biden the president and ignore the rule of law. There is no official winner until every legal vote is counted accurately, the states certify results, and all legal challenges are resolved.</blockquote>
Biden plans to address the nation on Saturday night, saying in a statement:
<blockquote>I am honored and humbled by the trust the American people have placed in me and in Vice President-elect Harris. In the face of unprecedented obstacles, a record number of Americans voted. Proving once again, that democracy beats deep in the heart of America.
With the campaign over, it’s time to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us and come together as a nation. It’s time for America to unite. And to heal. We are the United States of America. And there’s nothing we can’t do, if we do it together.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/election-2020-legal-challenges-everything-you-need-to-know">Election 2020 Legal Challenges: Everything You Need To Know</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/romney-predicts-trump-headed-for-re-election-wont-say-who-hell-vote-for" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Romney Predicts Trump Headed For Re-Election, Won’t Say Who He’ll Vote For</a>

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Assuming you&#8217;re not one of the 27 people worldwide that didn&#8217;t see the Super Bowl halftime show, you already know it was pretty raunchy, the kind of raunchy where you&#8217;d quietly corral the kids in the room and slip them out with promises of something really fun to do in the other room.
Singers J. Lo and Shakira paired up for a 15-minute raunchfest of thongs and crotch shots and stripper poles and writhing around on the floor. At one point in the show, the two stars stood side by side and just shook their butts. Cue closeups. And throughout, the female backup dancers were even more scantily clad, while the male dancers went hardcore S&amp;M. Often, there were children dancing on the stage. The whole thing was more appropriate for J Lo&#8217;s latest stripper movie, not primetime worldwide TV.
The show, as it always does, divided America. Some liked it, others not so much.
But one guy who really loved the show was Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida.
&#8220;Best Super Bowl half time show ever,&#8221; wrote Bush (living up to his campaign slogan, which was simply &#8220;Jeb!&#8221;).
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Best Super Bowl half time show ever.
&mdash; Jeb Bush (@JebBush) <a href="https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/1224141849088135169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Twitter came alive and, in a rare occurrence, really outdid itself.
&#8220;It made Hunter Biden feel like he was still in the VIP lounge at Cheetah&#8217;s,&#8221; wrote one Twitterer.
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It made Hunter Biden feel like he was still in the VIP lounge at Cheetah&#39;s. <a href="https://twitter.com/JebBush?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JebBush</a> <a href="https://t.co/AOQl1qcVcp">https://t.co/AOQl1qcVcp</a>
&mdash; Nick Searcy, INT&#39;L FILM &amp; TV STAR SINCE 1776 (@yesnicksearcy) <a href="https://twitter.com/yesnicksearcy/status/1224145281907744768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Which was your favorite part for kids to watch Jeb?&#8221; wrote another.
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Which was your favorite part for kids to watch Jeb? <a href="https://t.co/UziC7cWeCp">pic.twitter.com/UziC7cWeCp</a>
&mdash; Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1224179948962840576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Robby Starbuck&#8221; had another good tweet. &#8220;Here’s the #PepsiHalftime show that the NFL thought was great for all ages! It featured stripper poles, butt shots with kids standing behind them, adults grinding &amp; gyrating, rope to tie yourself with and plenty of crotch shots! What a wholesome show for little kids to watch.&#8221;
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Here’s the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PepsiHalftime?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PepsiHalftime</a> show that the NFL thought was great for all ages! It featured stripper poles, butt shots with kids standing behind them, adults grinding &amp; gyrating, rope to tie yourself with and plenty of crotch shots! What a wholesome show for little kids to watch. 🙄 <a href="https://t.co/k31U8FD0Yg">pic.twitter.com/k31U8FD0Yg</a>
&mdash; Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1224153850854150149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Sure, if we want to inspire our daughters to be trashy strippers who grab their crotch and spread their legs for all the world to see,&#8221; wrote a third.
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Sure, if we want to inspire our daughters to be trashy strippers who grab their crotch and spread their legs for all the world to see🙄
&mdash; Jen A- Text TRUMP to 88022🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JenATweeter) <a href="https://twitter.com/JenATweeter/status/1224155143479996416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Let&#8217;s pause for a moment in the festivities to point out that the halftime show was something we&#8217;ve all seen before. That&#8217;s not the point. It was the time and place that was so highly inappropriate. Just after 8 p.m. on the east coast (and even worse, just 5 p.m. on the west) isn&#8217;t exactly the time to air such erotically charged material on TV. The Super Bowl is a family event and the show was clearly not meant for children (or grandmothers, for that matter). We&#8217;re not saying there should have been 15 minutes of square dancing at a hoedown, just noting that singers endlessly grabbing their crotches and sexually writhing around on the stage might just be a little much for prime time.
Back to our regularly scheduled diatribe.
Franklin Graham, son of the late evangelist Billy Graham, weighed in on the halftime show, too.
&#8220;I don’t expect the world to act like the church, but our country has had a sense j moral decency on prime time TV in order to protect children. We see that disappearing before our eyes. It was demonstrated in tonight‘s @Pepsi #SuperBowl Halftime Show—w/millions of kids watching,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter.
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I don’t expect the world to act like the church, but our country has had a sense of moral decency on prime time TV in order to protect children. We see that disappearing before our eyes. It was demonstrated in tonight‘s <a href="https://twitter.com/pepsi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Pepsi</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SuperBowl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SuperBowl</a> Halftime Show—w/millions of kids watching.
&mdash; Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) <a href="https://twitter.com/Franklin_Graham/status/1224168044919955457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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But there wasn&#8217;t just unnecessary raunchiness. J-Lo sang &#8220;Born in the U.S.A.&#8221; while draped in a Puerto Rican flag, and young children were shown in cage-like structures singing J-Lo&#8217;s &#8220;Let&#8217;s Get Loud,&#8221; a reference to charges from liberals that President Trump&#8217;s administration holds children in cages at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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And lest we not overlook this message&#8230;Hispanic kids in cages. <a href="https://t.co/7ZkN0B5FMP">pic.twitter.com/7ZkN0B5FMP</a>
&mdash; Rae Prayor (@sweetmag9) <a href="https://twitter.com/sweetmag9/status/1224157359079071744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Kids in cages while singing Born in the USA draped in Puerto Rican flag. Yeah best ever,&#8221; one Twitterer wrote.
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Kids in cages while singing Born in the USA draped in Puerto Rican flag. Yeah best ever. <a href="https://t.co/XiAM4MYFaW">pic.twitter.com/XiAM4MYFaW</a>
&mdash; Chase Robins (@ChaseRobins5) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChaseRobins5/status/1224151258581360640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Maybe that&#8217;s why Jeb! thought it was the &#8220;Best Super Bowl half time show ever.&#8221;
This much is true: The Super Bowl halftime show once again gave us all something we could hate. And it&#8217;s all we&#8217;re talking about on the morning after.

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The Democrats have such a bad slate of presidential candidates that the only one who could potentially beat President Trump in 2020 may be someone too young to run and passionately radical. According to conservative pollster Frank Luntz, Rep. <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="2" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/alexandria-ocasio-cortez" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a> (D-NY) is the only Democrat capable of beating President Trump.
Speaking with Laura Ingraham on Fox News, Luntz said that Americans love authenticity and people who mean what they say, even if what they say is borderline farcical.
&#8220;The key is authenticity,&#8221; Luntz told Laura Ingraham on Tuesday, according to <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/frank-luntz-democrat-match-donald-trump-2020_n_5cdbfdafe4b0c39d2a142fab">HuffPost</a>. &#8220;You want to say what you mean, mean what you say. You want to be able to look straight at the camera and be yourself. And at least half of them [the 2020 Democratic hopefuls] are trying to be something that they&#8217;re not.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s why AOC does connect &#8212; she is herself,&#8221; Luntz continued. &#8220;And you can disagree with her policies and ideas, but she seems very genuine. And she looks like she&#8217;s having fun.&#8221;
Of course, polls show that Ocasio-Cortez has some unpopularity of her own; a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44755/ocasio-cortez-explodes-after-learning-her-ryan-saavedra">Gallup poll</a> in March found that the increase in Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s &#8220;unfavorable&#8221; rating in recent months had more than doubled her increase in &#8220;favorable ratings.&#8221; A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44797/more-new-yorkers-view-ocasio-cortez-villain-rather-hank-berrien">Siena College poll </a>from roughly the same time found more than three times as many respondents viewed her as a villain rather than a hero and 31% of respondents overall had a favorable impression of Ocasio-Cortez while 44% viewed her unfavorably.
Frank Luntz touches onto one of the key reasons why President Trump was propelled to presidential primary success over candidates like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. It wasn&#8217;t just what he said but how he said it. With that, people got a sense that he was talking directly to them as individuals, and not just as potential votes. All great politicians, from Presidents Reagan to Clinton to Obama, had an incredible ability to connect with voters in that way. In this year&#8217;s offering of candidates, only one has stood out as the most sincere: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), which seems to have not fared well for him at the moment, given he&#8217;s <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll/biden-expands-lead-over-rivals-for-2020-us-presidential-nomination-despite-lack-of-support-from-millennials-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKCN1SL1XI">massively lagging behind</a> former Vice President Joe Biden. Other candidates, including Joe Biden, have instead resorted to apologizing for past records or becoming more radical on certain positions in order to appeal to progressive voters.
In the same interview with Laura Ingraham, Luntz also blasted the other candidates, such as former Rep. Beto O&#8217;Rourke (D-TX) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), for pushing the &#8220;reset&#8221; button on their campaigns, saying it was &#8220;the dumbest thing you could possibly do because then it&#8217;s acknowledging that your politics doesn&#8217;t work.&#8221;
On Tuesday, Beto O&#8217;Rourke even went on &#8220;The View&#8221; to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47192/watch-beto-orourke-apologizes-privileged-and-paul-bois">apologize</a> for rolling out his campaign on the cover of Vanity Fair, acknowledging that it looked &#8220;elitist&#8221; and &#8220;privileged.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it reinforces that perception of privilege and that headline that said I was born to be in this, in the article I was attempting to say that I felt that my calling was in public service,&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke told &#8220;The View&#8221; co-host Joy Behar. &#8220;No one is born to be President of the United States of America, least of all me.&#8221;
As to who will actually win the Democratic nomination in 2020, Frank Luntz predicted that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would take the top spot while admitting he will not appeal &#8220;<a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="13" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:11;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/frank-luntz-bernie-sanders-prediction_n_5cd8d5dfe4b0705e47de69db" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">to the overall mainstream of American people</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;The public is really frustrated about being forgotten or left behind,&#8221; Luntz said on Monday. &#8220;And those two emotions, which elected Donald Trump, are alive not just on the right but also on the left. It&#8217;s the reason why Bernie Sanders did so well in 2016 and why, I&#8217;ll be blunt with you, I think he is the most likely nominee in 2020.&#8221;

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Struggling Democrat presidential contender Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) had to tell the audience at a CNN town hall event on Monday that it was time to applaud, echoing an embarrassing moment toward the end of former Gov. Jeb Bush&#8217;s 2016 campaign.
Klobuchar was asked by a student if she could win over voters in the Midwest who helped elected President Donald Trump in 2016. Klobuchar responded by giving a little background on how she has been able to win in a state that elects a lot of Republicans.
&#8220;Look at what I&#8217;ve done. I&#8217;m someone who runs in a purple state,&#8221; Klobuchar said. &#8220;When I started running for office, the other senator was Republican, the governor was Republican and three of our four constitutional officers were Republican. And then I started running, and every single time I&#8217;ve run, I&#8217;ve won every single congressional district in my state, including [former Rep.] Michele Bachmann&#8217;s.&#8221;
Silence fell after her answer, prompting Klobuchar to follow up, jokingly, with: &#8220;That&#8217;s when you guys are supposed to cheer, okay?&#8221;
The students then clapped.
Klobuchar would go on to receive cheers throughout her event, but this particular moment was reminiscent of a campaign event just weeks before Jeb Bush dropped out of the Republican primary in 2016. Bush was in New Hampshire at a campaign stop on Feb. 2, 2016, and delivered what he thought would be an impressive statement:
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Here&#8217;s my pledge to you: I will be a commander-in-chief who will have the back of the military. I won&#8217;t trash talk. I won&#8217;t be a divider-in-chief or an agitator-in-chief. I won&#8217;t be out there blowharding, talking a big game without backing it up. I think the next president needs to be a lot quieter but send a signal that we&#8217;re prepared to act in the national security interests of this country &#8211; to get back in the business of creating a more peaceful world.
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Though a member of his staff began clapping behind him, the rest of the audience remained silent and motionless.
&#8220;Please clap,&#8221; Bush said, in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdCYMvaUcrA">a clip</a> that has since become a meme.
Weeks later, on Feb. 20, Bush would announced he was <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/breaking-news-jeb-bush-is-suspending-his-presidential-campaign-219564">dropping out</a> of the presidential race. Bush had spent more than his rivals ahead of the Iowa caucuses, but was only able to garner 2.8% of the vote. In New Hampshire, he placed fourth, behind Donald Trump, former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. In South Carolina, he also came in fourth. After spending $150 million &#8211; a massive amount to spend so quickly in a primary &#8211; Bush announced he would drop out of the race.
&#8220;Despite what you might&#8217;ve heard, ideas matter, policy matters. And I truly hope that these ideas that we&#8217;ve laid out will serve as a blueprint for a generation of conservative leaders,&#8221; Bush said at the time.
Bush&#8217;s &#8220;please clap&#8221; moment came months nearly a year into the primary and after voting and the debates had begun. Klobuchar has already reached this moment at a time when more candidates may still announce. The Minnesota senator is currently polling at around 1.6%, according to Real Clear Politics&#8217; <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">polling average</a>.
You can watch the clip below, courtesy of Mediaite editor Aidan McLaughlin:
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Amy Klobuchar has her &#8220;please clap&#8221; moment <a href="https://t.co/b3SrveBeaf">pic.twitter.com/b3SrveBeaf</a>
&#8212; Aidan McLaughlin (@aidnmclaughlin) <a href="https://twitter.com/aidnmclaughlin/status/1120471495883489282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Amy Klobuchar Has Embarrassing Jeb Bush Moment During CNN Townhall

In an upcoming biography about former First Lady Barbara Bush, Bush blames her heart attack on President Donald Trump and says her dislike of him started as early as 1990.
The biography, &#8220;The Matriarch,&#8221; authored by USA Today&#8217;s Washington Bureau Chief, Susan Page, will be released next week.
Page extensively interviewed Bush during the final months of her life.
Bush <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/29583/george-and-barbara-bushs-incredible-love-story-paul-bois">passed away</a> last April at the age of 92. Her husband President George H. W. Bush passed away in November at the age of 94.
Bush found issue with Trump as early as 1990, when she called him &#8220;the real symbol of greed in the 80s&#8221; in her diary entries, reported <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/27/barbara-bush-blamed-trump-heart-attack-leaving-gop-the-matriarch/3270187002/">USA Today</a>. In 1992, referring to Trump and his ex-wife Ivana, Bush wrote &#8220;Trump now means greed, selfishness and ugly. So sad.&#8221;
Bush even blamed Trump for her heart attack. USA Today reported: 
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It wasn&#8217;t technically a heart attack, though she called it that. It was a crisis in her long battle with congestive heart failure and chronic pulmonary disease that hit her like a sledgehammer one day in June 2016. An ambulance was called to take her to the hospital. The two former presidents who had been at home with her that day, her husband and her oldest son, trailed in a car driven by the Secret Service. The tumultuous presidential campaign in general and Trump&#8217;s ridicule of son Jeb Bush in particular had riled her. &#8220;Angst,&#8221; she told me.
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During the 2016 election, Trump constantly took aim at her son Jeb Bush on the debate stage and in the media, dubbing him, &#8220;Low-Energy Jeb.&#8221;
Bush campaigned for her son after he lost the opening caucuses in Iowa and was fighting for support in New Hampshire. In a campaign video, she took a swipe at Trump. &#8220;Jeb has real solutions,&#8221; Bush said. &#8220;Rather than talking about how popular they are, how great they are, he&#8217;s doing it because he sees huge need and it&#8217;s not being filled by anybody. Of all the people running he seems to be the one who can solve the problems.&#8221;
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Jeb even joked about his mother on the debate stage, when he told the audience he has used marijuana. &#8220;Forty years ago, I smoked marijuana and I admit it,&#8221; Bush said. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure that other people might have done it and may not want to say it in front of 25 million people. My mom&#8217;s not happy that I just did.&#8221;
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In response, Trump&#8217;s campaign <a href="http://time.com/4042777/donald-trump-jeb-bush-marijuana-teen/">mocked</a> Jeb, posting a video that said: &#8220;Are we sure it was only 40 years ago?&#8221;
Trump also criticized Jeb for having his mother campaign for him: 
&#8220;Just watched Jeb&#8217;s ad where he desperately needed mommy to help him,&#8221; Trump tweeted. &#8220;Jeb &#8212; mom cannot help you with ISIS, the Chinese or with Putin.&#8221;
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Just watched Jeb&#8217;s ad where he desperately needed mommy to help him. Jeb &#8212; mom can&#8217;t help you with ISIS, the Chinese or with Putin.
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/690701138899898368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2016</a></blockquote>
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After Jeb dropped out, he reportedly encouraged his mom to move on. &#8220;Jeb said, &#8216;Mom, don&#8217;t worry about things you can&#8217;t do anything about,'&#8221; Barbara Bush recalled to Page. &#8220;He&#8217;s right. Just do good, make life better for someone else.&#8221;
Bush said her husband voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, but she wrote in Jeb&#8217;s name, and reportedly wrote in her diary, &#8220;I could not vote for Trump or Clinton.&#8221;
In a letter to First Lady Melania Trump, Bush joked about the possibility of the letter going to President Bill Clinton if Hillary had won.
&#8220;Dear Mrs. Trump, The world thought I was writing this note to Bill Clinton. I am glad that I am not. I wanted to welcome you to the very exclusive First Ladies club,&#8221; Bush reportedly wrote. &#8220;My children were older and, therefore, I did not have the problems you do. Whatever you decide to do is your business and yours alone. Living in the White House is a joy and their only job is to make you happy. If you decide to stay in NYC, that will be fine also. When you come to the White House, let your son bring a friend. That is my unasked for advice. God Bless you.&#8221;
In an October 2017 interview, Bush said that she considered herself a Republican, but only four months later, she told Page: &#8220;I&#8217;d probably say no today.&#8221;
Bush also displayed a Trump countdown clock on a side table in her bedroom after a friend gifted it to her as a joke.
Trump did not attend Bush&#8217;s funeral, but praised her legacy in a statement, reported The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/03/27/barbara-bush-says-angst-over-trump-caused-her-heart-problems-according-new-book/?utm_term=.506089d12a51">Washington Post</a>.
&#8220;For decades, Barbara was a titan in American life,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Her presence and character were engraved into America&#8217;s identity. Her strength and toughness really embodied the spirit of our country, and her warmth and devotion earned the admiration of an entire nation and, indeed, the entire world. She was a tireless champion for literacy, she was a fierce advocate for the American family and she was a woman of proud patriotism and profound faith.&#8221;

New Biography: Barbara Bush Blamed Trump For Her Heart Attack, Said She No Longer Considered Herself A Republican

President Trump is great at giving nicknames &#8212; maybe even better than George W. Bush (although the 43rd president nicknaming senior adviser Karl Rove &#8220;Turd Blossom&#8221; was pretty inspired).
Trump calls Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) &#8220;Pocahontas&#8221; for her false claims that&#8217;s she&#8217;s Native American. He calls Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Democrat who falsely claimed to have fought in the Vietnam War, &#8220;Da Nang Dick.&#8221; Jeb Bush was, of course, &#8220;Low Energy Jeb.&#8221; Then there&#8217;s &#8220;Crooked Hillary,&#8221; &#8220;Lyin&#8217; Leakin&#8217; James Comey,&#8221; &#8220;Jeff Flakey,&#8221; &#8220;Head Clown Chuck Schumer,&#8221; and &#8220;Mad Maxine Waters.&#8221;
On Monday, Trump added a new one to the list. On Twitter, he called Biden &#8220;another low I.Q. individual&#8221; as he mocked the former vice president for being &#8220;tongue tied&#8221; on whether he&#8217;s running in 2020.
&#8220;Joe Biden got tongue tied over the weekend when he was unable to properly deliver a very simple line about his decision to run for President. Get used to it, another low I.Q. individual!&#8221; Trump tweeted.
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Joe Biden got tongue tied over the weekend when he was unable to properly deliver a very simple line about his decision to run for President. Get used to it, another low I.Q. individual!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1107631297076305920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Low I.Q. Joe. It&#8217;s got a nice ring to it.
Trump was referring to a speech by Biden on Saturday, in which he made an error that made it sound like he was already running for president.
&#8220;I know I get criticized,&#8221; Biden said in Delaware. &#8220;I have the most progressive record of anybody running for the &#8212;anybody who would run.&#8221; He took a pause &#8212; at one point making the sign of the cross &#8212; after making the error as people in the crowd applauded. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t mean &#8230;&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;Of anybody who would run.&#8221;
But Biden is already testing the waters, and reportedly has hired some campaign strategists in New Hampshire, the first state in the country to hold a presidential primary every four years. And the D.C. website <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/16/biden-2020-announcement-1224007">Politico</a> reported Sunday that Biden is telling close friends he&#8217;s all but in.
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Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said to reporters earlier in the evening that Biden has told him that &#8220;he is all but certain he is going to run.&#8221; And addressing the dinner ahead of Biden&#8217;s remarks, Coons said he is &#8220;confident that 598 days from now, we will together be celebrating&#8221; a new commander in chief.
&#8220;Folks, I am praying for that man. And I am excited to hear from him just a few minutes from now,&#8221; Coons said. &#8220;And I am confident that&#8217;s our vice president, Joe Biden.&#8221;
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Trump has already got a few other nicknames for Biden. Among them:
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<li>Crazy Joe</li>
<li>1 Percent Biden</li>
<li>Sleepy Joe</li>
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Look for more nicknames to come once Uncle Joe jumps in the race. Trump still hasn&#8217;t mined the whole train thing, which seems fertile ground for a moniker.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44594/curl-biden-will-run-and-biden-will-win-joseph-curl">CURL: Biden Will Run, And Biden Will Win</a>

Trump Unveils New Nickname For Joe Biden — And It’s A Doozy

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Former 2016 presidential hopeful and Florida governor Jeb Bush called for a Republican to challenge President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2020 re-election bid, for the good of conservatives and for the country.
During an appearance on the podcast &#8220;The Axe Files,&#8221; hosted by CNN senior political commentator and former Barack Obama presidential campaign chief strategist David Axelrod, Bush said Republicans &#8220;ought to be a given a choice&#8221; in 2020.
&#8220;I think someone should run. Just because Republicans ought to be given a choice,&#8221; Bush <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/15/politics/jeb-bush-trump-2020-cnntv/index.html">told</a> Axelrod, according to CNN.
Trump has a &#8220;has a strong, loyal base and it&#8217;s hard to beat a sitting president,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;But to have a conversation about what it is to be a conservative I think is important.&#8221;
&#8220;And our country needs to have competing ideologies that people &#8212; that are dynamic, that focus on the world we&#8217;re in and the world we&#8217;re moving towards rather than revert back to a nostalgic time,&#8221; Bush added.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JebBush?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JebBush</a>: Republican should challenge <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> in &#8216;20. 
&#8220;I think someone should run just because Republicans ought to be given a choice&#8230; It&#8217;s hard to beat a sitting President, but to have a conversation about what it is to be a conservative, I think it&#8217;s important.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/ExITI44xM0">pic.twitter.com/ExITI44xM0</a>
&#8212; David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1106546957487472641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/15/politics/jeb-bush-trump-2020-cnntv/index.html">noted</a> by CNN, Axelrod brought up a 2020 Republican challenger to Trump in the context of Bush&#8217;s own support of Governor Larry Hogan (R-MD). The Republican&#8217;s January inauguration speech sparked reports of Hogan throwing his hat in the ring come 2020 campaign time.
Hogan is &#8220;at the top of a list of leaders that I admire today because what&#8217;s happening here in Annapolis is the antithesis of what&#8217;s happening in Washington, DC, these days,&#8221; Bush said of Hogan.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t realize I was part of his pre-campaign,&#8221; explained the former 2016 candidate. &#8220;I kind of got a sense that maybe this was an opening, at least, for (Hogan) to consider (a presidential run).&#8221;
Hogan <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/15/politics/jeb-bush-trump-2020-cnntv/index.html">told</a> CNN that he has spoken to people about potentially running in 2020. &#8220;People are talking to me about it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m flattered people are saying that and including me in those discussions. My focus, my plan right now is to stay here for four years and do the best job I can in Maryland, but I&#8217;ve said, &#8216;You never say never.&#8217; Who knows what&#8217;s going to happen.&#8221;
Tensions between Bush and Trump often boiled during the battle for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
Trump famously branded Bush as &#8220;low energy&#8221; and mocked him for getting his &#8220;mommy&#8221; involved in the race; Bush denounced Trump as an unserious bully, among other jabs between the two.
In January 2016, for example, Trump <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/donald-trump-mocks-jeb-bush-barbara-ad-218136">mocked</a> Bush for having his mother Barbara Bush appear in a campaign ad for him. &#8220;Just watched Jeb&#8217;s ad where he desperately needed mommy to help him. Jeb &#8212; mom can&#8217;t help you with ISIS, the Chinese or with Putin,&#8221; Trump posted to Twitter.
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Just watched Jeb&#8217;s ad where he desperately needed mommy to help him. Jeb &#8212; mom can&#8217;t help you with ISIS, the Chinese or with Putin.
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/690701138899898368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Trump also tied the &#8220;low energy&#8221; descriptor to Bush as often as possible, such as this tweet from March, 2016: &#8220;Low energy Jeb Bush just endorsed a man he truly hates, Lyin&#8217; Ted Cruz. Honestly, I can&#8217;t blame Jeb in that I drove him into oblivion!&#8221;
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Low energy Jeb Bush just endorsed a man he truly hates, Lyin&#8217; Ted Cruz. Honestly, I can&#8217;t blame Jeb in that I drove him into oblivion!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/712728075532943361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Bush <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKFkfEr0-pw">said</a> Trump was a &#8220;candidate of chaos,&#8221; a &#8220;bully,&#8221; and &#8220;not a serious candidate&#8221; during a 2015 CNN appearance.
Bush&#8217;s appearance on &#8220;The Axe Files&#8221; is set to air on Saturday.
WATCH:
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Jeb Bush says a Republican should challenge President Trump in 2020 <a href="https://t.co/7o7ZHOvl2j">https://t.co/7o7ZHOvl2j</a> <a href="https://t.co/oDRqs7kssg">pic.twitter.com/oDRqs7kssg</a>
&#8212; CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1106585900476260353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Jeb! Calls For Republican Challenger To Trump In 2020

Both the Trump and the Bush families have been all class in the wake of the 41st president&#8217;s passing. On top of refusing to pull a McCain by inviting President Trump to the funeral, the Bushes have only expressed kind words regarding the current president.
On Tuesday, while speaking before the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/wsj-ceo-council-dc-2018/card/1543948462?mod=e2twp">WSJ CEO Council</a>, Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, thanked both Donald and Melania Trump for their graciousness throughout this process, adding that President Trump &#8220;couldn&#8217;t have been nicer&#8221; when he called to pay his respects.
None of that means, however, that Jeb Bush and President Trump&#8217;s differences have been resolved. In the same talk, Jeb spoke about his father&#8217;s famous call for a &#8220;kinder, gentler America&#8221; and how that needs to come back.
&#8220;Politically it&#8217;s not winning,&#8221; Mr. Bush said of his father&#8217;s style. &#8220;But that&#8217;s not to say we shouldn&#8217;t restore it.&#8221;
Jeb Bush hoped that his father&#8217;s death would not be &#8220;an end of an era.&#8221; Later, he spoke of the optimism he has that such an era will return.
&#8220;A whole lot of people focused on solving problems, and they know that with civility and kindness and compassion and generosity of spirit you can do far more than pushing people down and making yourself look better,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m much more optimistic because I don&#8217;t come here often.&#8221;
As to why President Trump would not be giving the eulogy at his father&#8217;s funeral, the former Florida governor said that it was a matter of circumstance, being that his brother is a former president.
&#8220;What people want to talk about is, Well, why isn&#8217;t the president giving the eulogy?&#8217; It&#8217;s because we have a unique circumstance here my brother was president,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry. First dibs.&#8221;
Jeb Bush recalled his father as being a decent, generous man that treated people with integrity.
&#8220;He was the most generous, kind person you&#8217;d ever meet,&#8221; Jeb Bush said. &#8220;He treated everybody the same way and that&#8217;s the most powerful lesson I&#8217;ve learned.&#8221;
President Trump did attend the funeral service for H.W. Bush and the family made it clear that politics would not be welcome at the event. The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bush-family-seeks-to-steer-clear-of-anti-trump-sentiment-at-41st-presidents-funeral/2018/12/03/1bfe5828-f738-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.530f9dff1eaf">Washington Post</a> reported:
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The Bush family contacted the White House this past summer to say that President Trump would be welcome at the funeral, scheduled Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral, and to assure him that the focus would be on Bush&#8217;s life rather than their disagreements, one former administration official said.
The truce with Trump allows the Bush family, and the nation, to honor the legacy of a president who guided the United States through the 1991 Persian Gulf War and the breakup of the Soviet Union without becoming mired in today&#8217;s toxic politics. Trump in turn has been effusive in his praise of Bush since his death Friday, and paid respects Monday night at the U.S. Capitol, where the 41st president is lying in state.
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A former Bush associate told <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/01/bush-family-trump-funeral-1037144">Politico</a> that the service &#8220;will be about the celebration of the noble public service that George H.W. Bush gave. It&#8217;s not going to be about anybody else. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to be about Trump.&#8221;

Jeb Bush: President Trump ‘Couldn’t Have Been Nicer’ After Father Died

On Monday, speaking at the ceremony at the U.S. Capitol to commemorate the life of George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, Vice President Mike Pence told a beautiful story about Bush and Pence&#8217;s son Mike, who is a Marine aviator, that occurred only months before Bush passed away. The story was a tribute to the class, elegance and strength of the man who served his country in so many ways.
With Bush&#8217;s family looking on, the reaction of the family to Pence&#8217;s speech was a touching reminder of how genuinely close the family was and is. Pence stated:
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I&#8217;m told that he started writing letters to his parents when he was 18 years old, and over time his circle of correspondence grew to include family, friends, advisers, staff, business associates, former Presidents, and just about anyone who would take the trouble to write him.
After a lifetime of writing letters, my son got one just not too long ago. As I told two of his sons this weekend, when our son made his first tailhook landing as a Marine aviator on the U.S.S. George Herbert Walker Bush, I took the liberty of writing that ship&#8217;s namesake to ask for a small favor.
I didn&#8217;t write to him as a Vice President to a former President, I just wrote as a proud dad of a Marine aviator to a former Navy pilot. I asked him to sign a picture of the flight deck that I could give to my son.
Now, we were told by the staff that the President had long since ended the practice of signing autographs, and we understood that. But little to my surprise, just in time for my son&#8217;s winging, there came not only a signed photograph, but, of course, a letter, hand-signed as well &#8212; August 2018. In that letter, President Bush wrote to my son, in his words, &#8220;Congratulations on receiving your &#8216;wings of gold.&#8217; I know how proud you and your family are at this moment.&#8221;
And then in words that assured us that the letter came directly from him, he wrote, quote, &#8220;Though we have not met, I share the pride your father has for you during this momentous occasion. And I wish you many CAVU days ahead. All the best, G Bush.&#8221;
I would come to learn that that acronym, CAVU for short, is a term Navy pilots have used since World War II. It stands for Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited.
President Bush described CAVU, in his words, as &#8220;the kind of weather we Navy pilots wanted when we were to fly off our carrier in the Pacific.&#8221; And he once wrote a letter to his children saying that CAVU, in his words, &#8220;describes my own life as it has been over the years, as it is right now.&#8221; Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited.
You know, that may well describe the essence of this man. And it may well have been his vision. The vision he had for his life, for his children, his children&#8217;s children, and his country: no barriers, no boundaries, no limits.
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VP Mike Pence tells a story about reaching out to President Bush after his naval aviator son made his 1st tailhook landing on the USS George H.W. Bush.
&#8220;Though we have not met, I share the pride your father has for you during this momentous occasion,&#8221; Bush wrote in a letter. <a href="https://t.co/Ijf7ucUSLq">pic.twitter.com/Ijf7ucUSLq</a>
&#8212; The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSitRoom/status/1069724537787465730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Pence Delivers Beautiful Tribute To George H. W. Bush

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A photo of George H.W. Bush&#8217;s service dog looking sad as it lies on the floor in front of his flag draped coffin has gone viral.
The picture was posted on Twitter by Bush&#8217;s longtime aide and friend, Jim McGrath.
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Mission complete. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Remembering41?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Remembering41</a> <a href="https://t.co/rXdyXAS4lk">pic.twitter.com/rXdyXAS4lk</a>
&#8212; Jim McGrath (@jgm41) <a href="https://twitter.com/jgm41/status/1069411159730790400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Jeb Bush, son of the 41st president and the former governor of Florida, retweeted the photo, with the simple words: &#8220;Sully has the watch.&#8221;
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Sully has the watch. <a href="https://t.co/olnBtN4WgE">https://t.co/olnBtN4WgE</a>
&#8212; Jeb Bush (@JebBush) <a href="https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/1069413106726649856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
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X-Men actress Olivia Munn shared the photo, saying: &#8220;President George H.W. Bush. A World War II hero who gave his service revolver to a Navy lieutenant aboard the submarine that rescued him after his plane was shot down. This is his pup Sully, lying beside him til the very end. Thank you for your service, Mr. President.&#8221;
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President George H.W. Bush. A World War II hero who gave his service revolver to a Navy lieutenant aboard the submarine that rescued him after his plane was shot down This is his pup Sully, lying beside him til the very end. &#65039; Thank you for your service, Mr. President. <a href="https://t.co/iHZP18QNQO">pic.twitter.com/iHZP18QNQO</a>
&#8212; Olivia Munn (@oliviamunn) <a href="https://twitter.com/oliviamunn/status/1069477319570423808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Fox News host Bret Baier tweeted: &#8220;That is just a great pic of Sully the service dog who served @GeorgeHWBush Wow.&#8221;
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That is just a great pic of Sully the service dog who served <a href="https://twitter.com/GeorgeHWBush?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GeorgeHWBush</a> Wow. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Remembering41?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Remembering41</a> <a href="https://t.co/bzL5OxCsos">https://t.co/bzL5OxCsos</a>
&#8212; Bret Baier (@BretBaier) <a href="https://twitter.com/BretBaier/status/1069471893906956289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Sully, a yellow labrador who became Bush&#8217;s service dog in June, will make one last trip with the former president, accompanying his casket to Washington, D.C., a trip McGrath says has the call sign &#8220;Special Air Mission 41.&#8221; Bush will lie in state in the capitol starting Monday and a service will be held at the Washington National Cathedral later in the week.
George W. Bush posted on Instagram that Sully will be reassigned. &#8220;As much as our family is going to miss this dog, we&#8217;re comforted to know he&#8217;ll bring the same joy to his new home, Walter Reed, that he brought to 41,&#8221; the 43rd president wrote.

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