Jeb Bush Says He Doesn’t Care His Favorability Has Plunged Below Zero

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush participates in an economuc forum, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, in Columbia, S.C. Republican hopefuls are pitching a conservative path to fighting poverty. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Friday that he didn’t know and didn’t care why his favorability has dropped below zero among Republicans.

Bush’s net favorable rating among Republicans was at 27 percent from July 8-21, but has dropped to minus one percent from Dec. 18-Jan. 5, according to the latest Gallup poll.

Bush was asked on Newsmax Now what he thought was the main reason for the sharp decline.

“Hell if I know,” Bush replied. “I don’t really care.”

“I’m focused on these early states where my numbers are much better and I’m gonna earn this nomination in a way that will draw people towards our cause,” Bush continued. “And I do sense that people are taking it seriously now. Both in Iowa and New Hampshire people make decisions really late.”

Iowa’s caucus is Feb. 1.

h/t: BuzzFeed News

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  1. “Hell if I know,” Bush replied. "I don’t really care.”

    Um…your brother was smart enough to care and not only was HE a Pity-C student but he was too lazy to sniff.

  2. It’s obvious he doesn’t care. That’s why he should be forced to continue right through the convention.

  3. Jeb!: Look my brother was 2 term president and his rating was historically low. I am doing what he did after he became president: be unpopular. I am the perfect Bush.

  4. Any day now, the republican voters will take the campaign seriously. Any day now, you’ll see…

  5. I’d pity him–caught between his obvious aversion to and unfitness for the role of POTUS and his family’s bullshit vision of a “dynasty”–except for the fact that he’s as big a scumbag as his moronic brother, monstrous mother, hypocritical father, and war criminal grandfather. Destroy the legacy, Jeb.

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