Fox News: Jeb Bush ‘Changing Gears in What Some Are Calling a Desperate Maneuver’
RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
MCKELWAY: "In America’s election headquarters tonight, the closing hours of 2015, a one former front-runner is changing gears in what some are calling a desperate maneuver. The candidates aren’t miss anything changes to stand out to voters, even if that means going negative. Correspondent Rich Edson has our round-up tonight."
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EDSON (voice-over): "Shifting to a ground strategy, two senior Jeb Bush aides say the campaign is reassigning the majority of its Miami headquarters staff to the early voting states. Particularly New Hampshire. It is also canceling Iowa and South Carolina TV ads. The voting begins February 1st. With the Iowa caucuses. And Donald Trump still enjoy as commanding lead over bush. A Quinnipiac Poll says there are 24 percentage points and several candidates between them. Bush’s campaign is continuing to focus on the Republican front-runner. It has released a video highlighting what it calls trump’s most unhinged moments of the year."
TRUMP: "I’m greatly honored by your statement. Think it’s terrific."
EDSON (voice-over): "The trump show stopped in South Carolina where the headliner also turned his attacks to the Democrats. President Obama and Hillary Clinton."
TRUMP: "I went to an ivy league school. I’m very highly educated. I know words, I have the best words. But there’s no better word than stupid. Right?"
EDSON (voice-over): "Trump riffed for an hour. Mostly criticizing the Clintons, calling senator Bernie Sanders a disaster. Knocking the president’s strategy to combat ISIS and mocking his plan to address climate change."
TRUMP: "They say don’t use hairspray it’s bad for thezone so I’m sitting in this concealed apartment.
-Day live in a very nice apartment, right? But it’s sealed. It’s beautiful. I don’t think anything gets out. I’m not supposed to be using hairspray."
EDSON (voice-over): "He vowed to build a wall on the Mexican border and claimed that no one respects women more than he does. As senator Ted Cruz’ poll numbers rise, the junior senator from Texas returned to the Dallas area to tour the destruction from this weekend’s deadly tornadoes."
CRUZ: "We’re not going to take any political questions here. There will be a time and a place, we’ll do lots of press conferences on that."
EDSON (voice-over): "In Iowa New Jersey governor Chris Christie knocked senator Marco Rubio over his poor Senate voting attendance."
CHRISTIE: "It’s complicated stuff, you just have to say yes or no.
EDSON (voice-over): "In response, Rubio pointed to Christie’s time spent campaigning and away from New Jersey. Rubio focused on Hillary Clinton today."
RUBIO: "There’s no way someone that recklessly irresponsible should be the commander-in-chief or the president of the United States."
EDSON (voice-over): "Clinton’s opponents will have another opportunity to scour emails from her personal server. The State Department will release its latest court-ordered traunch tomorrow, new year’s eve."
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EDSON: "And as Republican candidates campaign into 2016 they’ll have one fewer competitor. Former New York governor George Pataki has withdrawn. Failed to draw much attention from the front-running candidates and his departure leaves a dozen Republican candidates."
MCKELWAY: "And more to drop in the coming weeks. Thank you, rich."
