Jeb Bush Positions Himself as the Grown Up

Rick Klein: “This hectic week-plus before the first Republican debate may be remembered for Mike Huckabee’s Auschwitz memoires, Lindsey Graham’s new cell phone, and maybe even Donald Trump’s trip across the pond to catch some golf. It might also be remembered as the period in time that Jeb Bush found the campaign groove he’s long promised – the one where he shows, in his words, a willingness to ‘lose the primary to win the general.'”

“Bush gave a Spanish-language interview denouncing Trump, jabbed at a certain former candidate famous for ‘self-deportation,’ and embraced a centrist’s vision of bipartisanship, as the New York Times’ Jonathan Martin documents. More interestingly, perhaps, he chose to engage and respond to Huckabee’s comments on the Iran deal – a deal, of course, that he harshly opposes: ‘The use of that kind of language, it’s just wrong,’ Bush said. Attacking fellow Republicans isn’t by itself a path to a nomination, as Bush and his team know. But it’s a calculation that there’s room for a grown-up in the chaos that is the nomination fight right now.”