http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/jeb-bush-comeback-new-hampshire-217047 Jeb Bush shows signs of life in New Hampshire
‘This is far from over up here,’ a state GOP operative says.
By Eli Stokols
12/22/15 05:14 AM EST
ALTON, N.H. — No candidate can be happier to say goodbye to 2015 than Jeb Bush, whose months of futility in the face of Donald Trump’s attacks relegated him to an afterthought in a wild and unpredictable Republican primary. And yet, at year’s end, there are signs that people in New Hampshire, the state that could key an unlikely comeback, still take him seriously.
Take the 200-person crowds showing up at his four Saturday town halls. Take the current polls in New Hampshire that put him within striking distance of every GOP rival but Trump.
And perhaps most significantly, take Beverly Bruce, a Republican activist who served as Mitt Romney’s 2012 New Hampshire finance chair and had been courted by several contenders. She has decided to throw her weight, and her considerable organizing muscle, behind Bush after attending three of his four voter meetings on Saturday.
“He just hit every one of my buttons,” said Bruce. “Everywhere he goes, people walk in and they say, ‘Well, I don’t know, he hasn’t done that well.’ And when they walk out, they love him. I saw it happen again and again. I'm going to do everything I can to help him.”
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