When Scott Walker bowed out of the race, it coulda, shoulda been a windfall for Jeb Bush’s Presidential campaign, but his poll numbers as of Saturday are in a “steady decline”.
Bush continues to battle against a steady decline in the polls, sinking to fifth place at just 7 percent in a national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday and similarly languishing in the early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire.
The momentum that could have been gleaned from Walker’s suspended candidacy has gone to Marco Rubio, who has jumped in front of Bush in the polls.
At least a third of the bundlers who signed up to raise money for Walker have switched their allegiance to Rubio, while a smaller number have gone with Bush, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Bush has opinions about polling and shared them with “Fox News Sunday”.
Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Bush played down the importance of his standing in polls. “These polls really don’t matter. . . . They don’t filter out the people that aren’t going to vote, it’s just — I know it’s an obsession because it kind of frames the debate for people for that week,” he said.
He certainly has to up his game in this crowded field and make himself a stand out, in order to gain enough support to win.
Henry Barbour, Republican strategist, said that people need to get to really know Jeb Bush and have not been afforded that opportunity.
“I think if people get to know Jeb and they give him a chance, he’s going to be tough to beat,” Barbour added. “But they don’t know him yet. And you’ve got a right wing of the party that is almost determined not to get to know him. They want to believe that because they disagree with him on a couple issues that he’s not their guy.”
Read more at the Washington Post about Bush’s uphill struggle to make a name of his own.
Source: Washington Post
