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Jeb Bush finding place for brother’s tenure in 2016 campaign

In this April 19, 2006 file photo, President George W. Bush, accompanied by his brother, then-Fla. assertions that Bush’s broth- when we were attacked,
Gov. Jeb Bush, speaks on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington. Jeb Bush is tossing er bears some responsibility my brother created an en-
aside any hesitations about embracing former President George W. Bush’s legacy and is search- for 9/11. vironment where, for 2,600
ing for new ways to incorporate him into his White House campaign. “In the latest episode of the days, we were safe,” Bush
reality show that is Donald said Monday night on Fox
(AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File) Trump’s campaign, he has News.
blamed my brother for the “No one attacked us again.
T. BEAUMONT ure as the nation’s leader, into his White House cam- 9/11 terrorist attacks on our And he changed the laws,
JILL COLVIN Jeb Bush has tossed aside paign. nation,” Bush wrote in a he did everything neces-
Associated Press any hesitations about em- It’s a shift due in no small column published Tuesday sary, he united the country,
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — bracing former President part to the jabs of Repub- in the conservative Nation- and he kept us safe.”
After initially struggling with George W. Bush’s legacy lican presidential front- al Review. The back and forth be-
questions about the Iraq and is searching for new runner Donald Trump, who “That Trump echoes the tween the two candidates
War and his brother’s ten- ways to incorporate him isn’t backing down from his attacks of Michael Moore began at the second Re-
and the fringe left against publican debate, when
my brother is yet another Bush defended his brother
example of his dangerous as a president who kept the
views on national-security nation safe after the billion-
issues.” aire businessman claimed
Spurred on by Trump, Bush is George W. Bush’s presi-
showing none of the hesita- dency “gave us Barack
tion in embracing his broth- Obama, because it was
er’s presidency that tripped such a disaster.”
him up in the weeks lead- While George W. Bush’s fa-
ing to the formal launch vorability among all Ameri-
of his 2016 campaign. Jeb cans remains mixed, nearly
Bush fumbled answers to three-quarters of Repub-
questions about his broth- licans have a favorable
er’s decision to invade Iraq view of him, according to a
in 2003 for an entire week in Pew Research poll in May.
May, struggling to explain Jeb Bush scored his big-
whether he would have gest applause of the eve-
done the same. ning when he pivoted to
Bush is on much more com- his right to face Trump and
fortable ground when it said calmly, “As it relates
comes to his brother’s re- to my brother, there’s one
sponse to 9/11. thing I know for sure. He
“The simple fact is that kept us safe.”q

Biden casts himself as Obama’s kindred spirit

JOSH LEDERMAN 2011 raid that killed Osama Republicans.”
Associated Press bin Laden, asserting that “I don’t think my chief en-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice he had privately advised emy is the Republican Par-
President Joe Biden cast Obama to proceed. With- ty,” Biden said, adding that
himself Tuesday as Presi- out naming Clinton, he he still has many friends in
dent Barack Obama’s contradicted her claim to that party.
kindred spirit and chief have backed the raid from In another observation with
global emissary, amplifying the start by saying only the heavy 2016 undertones,
themes he could use to ap- defense secretary and CIA Biden said he was the
peal to loyal Obama sup- chief were fully in favor. one that Obama would
porters if he challenges Hill- As his deliberations about dispatch to speak to key
ary Rodham Clinton in the 2016 extend deep into world leaders like Russian
presidential race. overtime, Biden offered President Vladimir Putin or
“President Obama and I no explicit clues about his Turkish President Recep
have ideologically had no pending decision, but took Tayyip Erdogan.
disagreement,” Biden said a number of veiled shots at “We’ve had two great sec-
at a forum honoring former Clinton, who said in the first retaries of state, but when
Vice President Walter Mon- Democratic debate last I go, they know that I am
dale. “I mean none. Zero.” week that the enemy she speaking for the president,”
Biden also revised his ac- was most proud to have Biden said.q
count of the run-up to the made was “probably the