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Bush Paints Himself as the Candidate to Beat Clinton in New Ad

Bush is fighting hard against Republican front-runner Donald Trump

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Jeb Bush painted a dark vision of the future for the Republican party on Wednesday—one where Hillary Clinton defeats Donald Trump on election day.

In a new online ad from the Bush campaign, the former Florida Gov. offers himself as a solution to defeating Clinton in November. “If Donald Trump is the nominee, Hillary Clinton will be elected president. We can’t let that happen,” Bush wrote on Twitter.
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The ad, above, channels fears that Trump, despite his success among GOP voters, cannot beat Clinton in a general election. A voice announces that after the votes were tallied “Hillary Clinton will win.” The only alternative, according to the Bush campaign, is Bush himself.

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The ad represents the latest broadside in Bush’s well-funded war on Trump. Bush, an early establishment favorite, quickly lost his front-runner status to the real estate mogul and has struggled to regain ground before early-voting begins in Iowa and New Hampshire.

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