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Marco Rubio serious while Jeb Bush campaigning for family name: US journalist

Tuesday, 03 November 2015 11:36 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 03 November 2015 11:40 AM ]

“I don’t think [Jeb] Bush is very serious about running at all,” Walt Peretto told Press TV on Tuesday.

US Republican candidate Jeb Bush is running for president to keep the name of his family alive, but Senator Marco Rubio is a serious White House contender, an American writer and journalist says.

Walt Peretto made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday while commenting on a new poll which shows that Rubio has tripled his standing in New Hampshire among Republican primary voters in the last two months.

According to a Monmouth University poll released on Monday, Rubio is the favorite to win the New Hampshire Republican contest among 13 percent of likely primary voters.

Trump is in the lead with 26 percent of the vote, while neurosurgeon Ben Carson is in second place at 16 percent. The support for Carson and Trump however dropped from September.

Jeb Bush, once considered to be a frontrunner, has support of only 7 percent of likely primary voters in New Hampshire.

Peretto said that “we have Rubio climbing and distancing himself from the latest version of a Bush, and Rubio certainly will have good support from Hispanics, especially in Cuban south Florida, and from other conservative leaning voters whose families are generationally recent immigrants.”

“Generally, the Republican Party has appealed to voters who are outspoken against the legal immigration, so Rubio may not gain their support in 2016,” he added.

“And some people are also suggesting that Rubio may be taking away some big donor support from Jeb Bush, but I don’t think Bush is very serious about running at all,” he stated.

“I think he is campaigning to keep his family in the public eye… Marco Rubio on the other hand is quite serious, and if Trump ends up sticking up a permanent foot in his mouth, and Carson loses momentum, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if elections comes down to Rubio, and either of the latest version of the Clinton crime family, namely Hillary, or the populist Bernie Sanders,” the journalist concluded.

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