It began last week in New Hampshire, but
escalated yesterday in McAllen, TX: Jeb Bush is increasingly punching
back at Donald Trump. He argued
that Trump's immigration plan to round up all undocumented immigrants
isn't "grounded in conservative principles," saying: "The simple fact is
that his proposal is unrealistic, it will cost hundreds of billions of
dollars, it will violate people's civil liberties, it will create
friction with our third largest trading partner." As the New York Times puts it,
"The change in Mr. Bush's tone is a calculated strategy, interviews
show, with two different but crucial aims now that Mr. Trump is proving
to be a long-term obstacle, not a passing nuisance: to dilute Mr.
Trump's right-wing support by proving that he is not a genuine
conservative and to show a wary Republican Party that Mr. Bush is enough
of a street fighter to survive a nasty nomination contest." And there
is another bonus, at least from the Bush point of view -- elevating
Trump as his main foil, which demotes the rest of the field of
anti-Bushes.
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