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Jeb is actually really unpopular with a lot of the Republican base. He gets booed when he's at conventions. His strategy was to use his Wall St connections (h
by wmil 11y ago
Jeb is actually really unpopular with a lot of the Republican base. He gets booed when he's at conventions.
His strategy was to use his Wall St connections (he was working for Lehman Brothers when it went bankrupt) to build a war chest capable of permanently damaging any other candidate in the race with negative ads. Essentially forcing Republican voters to make an early choice between accepting candidate Jeb Bush and getting president Hillary Clinton.
That drove most other candidates from the race, but Trump's entry has completely destroyed that strategy.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> That drove most other candidates from the race Given the unusually crowded Republican field, that's hard to defend as consistent with reality. "Resulted in most of the other candidates that were seen as likely and viable by the mainstream establishment staying out of the race" is, perhaps, not as obviously contrary to reality.