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Jeb Bush has moment of “self-therapy,” calls Donald Trump “a jerk”

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Days after going toe-to-toe with Donald Trump on the debate stage, Jeb Bush seemed to relish his new role as the Republican front-runner’s chief critic while campaigning on Saturday in New Hampshire. “I’ve got to get this off my chest: Donald Trump is a jerk,” Bush said, unprompted, between answering two voters’ questions. Then he slammed the billionaire businessman for insulting women, Hispanics and people with disabilities during the campaign. “Who is he kidding?” Bush asked the crowd. “I gave…

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Mitch Perry Report for 12.18.15 — Obama making course correction on optics of being a wartime president?

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Like President Barack Obama, I’m flying to California today. I’m leaving for vacation but in the president’s case, his California trip is to speak with the victims of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, before departing for Hawaii for the next few weeks. I’ll be spending time back home with family and friends in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’ll be in the air when the president gives his annual end-of-the-year news conference, where undoubtedly he’ll be asked about the…

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Donald Trump says he’s been ‘a little bit divisive’ in GOP race

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One day after a debate clash with Jeb Bush, Donald Trump said he’s been “a little bit divisive” and wants to see Republicans come together. In an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel‘s late-night show Wednesday, the GOP presidential candidate looked relaxed as Kimmel queried him about campaign issues. Trump, who has argued for temporarily banning Muslims from entering the United States, said he’s gotten calls of thanks from friends who are Muslim. “Those may have been crank calls,” Kimmel replied, smiling.…

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Mitch Perry Report for 12.17.15 — As Congress votes on spending bill, will far right turn on Paul Ryan now?

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I’m going to guess that conservatives in Congress aren’t going to turn on new House Speaker Paul D. Ryan so soon, since he’s still undergoing a honeymoon less than two months after replacing the very unpopular John Boehner. But there’s definitely unease among the far right part of the party on this omnibus spending bill that his House of Representatives will vote on tomorrow. Today comes a vote on a tax package, which apparently is only going to be supported by Republicans,…

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Interest in Donald Trump spikes in Florida, based on Google searches during debate

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If there were any doubt about Donald Trump’s rising popularity in Florida, crunching numbers of Internet searches statewide during last night’s presidential debate might just put those doubts to rest. Tallahassee-based Strategic Digital Services (SDS) released figures Wednesday morning examining Google Trends in the top Florida media markets during the final Republican Party debate for 2015. Search engine volume is one factor in gauging a candidate’s relative strength in a particular region. SDS looked at numbers for Trump, former Florida…

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Mitch Perry Report for 12.16.15 – Fear and loathing in Las Vegas

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With all the Republican candidates gathering at the Venetian in Las Vegas for the last GOP presidential debate in 2015, the question I ask you today is – will the Republican nominee be anyone other than Donald Trump or Ted Cruz? Trump was his classic self last night, but finally had somebody take it to him in the person of Jeb Bush, who had several well-rehearsed put-down lines that had the Donald mumbling to himself and making absurd faces. Bush condemned…

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Debate takeaways: Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio mix it up, as do Jeb Bush, Donald Trump

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Nine Republican presidential candidates took the stage Tuesday night for a debate that focused almost exclusively on foreign policy. But the gathering of White House hopefuls in Las Vegas shaped up as a pair of mini-match-ups: One debate unfolded between the 44-year-old senators, Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida. And in a surprise rumble, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush went hard after billionaire real estate mogul and GOP front-runner Donald Trump. And Trump, by the way, promised…

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