Politico
By Eli Stokols
August 21, 2015
Jeb
Bush will travel Monday to McAllen, Texas, which sits on the
U.S.-Mexico border, to discuss border security, immigration reform and
other economic issues with local
officials — a trip that will come as Bush is engaging in a feud with
Donald Trump over immigration.
The
meeting with local leaders will be closed to the press and Bush will
not be touring the border, his campaign announced Friday.
Bush,
who has had a fundraiser in McAllen scheduled for weeks, will also
appear at a local restaurant. While the events had not been disclosed
until Friday morning, they’d
been in the planning stages for “a few weeks,” according to campaign
spokesman Tim Miller.
Miller
brushed off the idea that the campaign events are in any way a response
to Trump, who visited Laredo last month and has made his own nativist
pitch for immigration
reform the centerpiece of his surging campaign.
“I
think it’s fair to say that Jeb will use the event to contrast his
consistent, achievable plan for addressing immigration issues and
securing the border with Donald
Trump’s unserious and unconservative one,” Miller said. “So in that
sense he’s had an impact.”
The
announcement comes after days of intensifying sparring between Trump
and Bush, who this week showed a new willingness to take on the
bombastic businessman who currently
leads the GOP primary field and continues to upend the race.
As
he argued forcefully Wednesday and Thursday that Trump is not a true
conservative with a record of accomplishment like his own, Bush found
himself defending his own
use of the term “anchor babies” to describe the children of
undocumented immigrants born in the U.S.
Bush,
who has criticized Trump’s caustic tone and touted his own unique
appeal to Hispanic voters, argued Thursday that the phrase, which he
once counseled Republicans
not to use, isn’t offensive.
He continued to take aim at Trump Friday on Twitter.
Trump,
who’s been slamming Bush for weeks, fired off another tweet Friday
morning hitting him for the flip-flop and clearly reveling in the extent
to which the candidate
long thought to be the party’s front-runner seems to be responding to
him.
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