If Jeb Bush is to have any chance of winning the Republican nomination in 2016, he needs a ‘media moment’. He needs an exchange of arguments or insults with Donald J. Trump in which he indisputably comes out on top.
If you listen to Team Bush’s boosters, that moment happened last night. But they would say that.
Trump and Bush clashed fiercely over foreign policy and the legacy of Jeb’s brother, George W. Bush. And the crowd booed Trump. Trump said that the Bush II administration had lied over Iraq. ‘They said there were weapons of mass destruction,’ he said. ‘There were none and they knew there were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction.’
This prompted boos from the audience and an emotional response from Jeb Bush, who said: ‘When Donald Trump was building a reality TV show, my brother was building the security apparatus that kept us safe.
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