New York Times
By Patrick Healy
July 4, 2015
Jeb
Bush, whose wife is Mexican and three children were raised to celebrate
their bicultural roots, showed a flash of anger on Saturday as he said
that he “absolutely”
took personal offense when Donald Trump recently described Mexican
immigrants coming to the United States as “rapists” and criminals.
Mr.
Bush, a former Florida governor, used his strongest language yet to
denounce Mr. Trump, a rival for the 2016 Republican presidential
nomination and the second-place
finisher behind Mr. Bush in a New Hampshire poll that was conducted
after Mr. Trump made those remarks. Mr. Bush, after marching in an
Independence Day parade here with two of his children, George and
Noelle, said that Mr. Trump’s views are “way out of the
mainstream” of the party.
“To
make these extraordinarily ugly kind of comments is not reflective of
the Republican Party,” Mr. Bush said about Mr. Trump, whose comments
caused NBC, Univision, Macy’s
and others to cut ties with him.
“He’s
doing this — he’s not a stupid guy, so I don’t assume he thinks that
every Mexican crossing the border is a rapist. He’s doing this to
inflame and incite and to
draw attention, which seems to be the organizing principle of his
campaign,” Mr. Bush said.
Asked if he took Mr. Trump’s remarks personally, given his family, Mr. Bush became a little cross.
“Yeah,
of course it — absolutely — and a lot of other people” did as well, he
said. “But politically, we’re going to win when we’re hopeful and
optimistic and big and
broad rather than errrrr, grrrr, just angry all the time. This is an
exaggerated form of that, and there is no tolerance for it.”
Another
Republican candidate, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, gave a
different answer on Friday when asked about Mr. Trump, a longtime
friend. He criticized Mr. Trump’s
remarks but then appeared to vouch for him.
“I
like Donald. He’s a good guy,” Mr. Christie said. “And as I said right
from the beginning, he’ll be as serious a candidate as he wants to be.
Those are his choices.”
Mr.
Trump issued a statement in response to the criticism, saying, “Today,
Jeb Bush once again proves that he is out of touch with the American
people. Just like the simple
question asked of Jeb on Iraq, where it took him five days and multiple
answers to get it right, he doesn’t understand anything about the
border or border security. In fact, Jeb believes illegal immigrants who
break our laws when they cross our border come
“out of love.” ”
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