Many Republican lawmakers think Rubio will beat Bush
US lawmakers from the Republican Party are concluding that Jeb Bush is unlikely to win the party’s nomination for president and that Senator Marco Rubio has the highest chance of winning in the general election.
Bush’s poor performance in the last Republican presidential debate, combined with his declining poll numbers, has begun to shift sentiment in the Republican establishment.
“Marco’s in the driver’s seat. There’s a lot of disappointment in Bush’s performance,” said one Republican senator, who requested anonymity to discuss the presidential race.
One pro-Rubio senator said “it’s nearly unanimous” in the Republican Party that Bush is struggling and Rubio is rising.
Surveys show support for Rubio growing while declining for Bush since the last debate in Boulder, Colorado on October 28.
Rubio is the current Senator from Florida. Bush is the former governor of the same state.
According to the latest polling data by realclearpolitics, Rubio is in third place behind Donald Trump and Ben Carson. Bush is in fifth place behind Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.
Jeb “is in big trouble,” according to a Republican senator who supported Bush’s father, former President George H.W. Bush.
“He’s cross-ways with the Republican base. They see him as the epitome of a bought and paid-for establishment candidate,” the lawmaker said. “I don’t see how he can get back in there.”
Other Republicans reject the opinion that Bush is in decline, citing Senator John McCain’s comeback in the 2008 Republican presidential primary, when seemed on the brink of collapse.
“McCain was way, way down before New Hampshire,” said a Republican senator, who went on to excoriate the rollicking, wide-open nature of this year’s primary.
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