Heilemann: Trump Asserting ‘His Alpha Male Superiority over Jeb’
BRZEZINSKI: “But the high-minded political campaign thinkers may -- may sneer at what Trump is doing. But it's working.”
HEILEMANN: “But if you think about one of the things you're talking about. About Hillary before is the notion of how much of this is the people around her, the advice she's getting versus just who she is, how she -- what her character is as a political performer. I think there's a similar thing going on with Jeb Bush. He has advisers, he has strategists, he has people telling him what to do. There's no question that this attack that Trump has keyed on, low energy, which to me has always sounded like he's calling Jeb Bush the low ‘T’ candidate. He is the low testosterone candidate. This is another way for Jeb -- for Trump to assert his alpha male superiority over Jeb.”
SCARBOROUGH: “To emasculate”
HEILEMANN: “It is -- To emasculate him as Steve Schmidt said on this air a week ago. I think it's gotten under Jeb’s skin. It's not just – it’s not his advisers say you've got to hit back. Jeb is annoyed. And this has gotten, it really -- it irks him, it digs at him, and I think he's fully engaged. However pural this back and forth is, I think there is some genuine -- it's not a manufacture and consultant driven thing, it's a personal thing now for Jeb.”




