February 14th, 2016

11:48 AM ET
UPDATE: Bush on the Senate scheduling a vote to replace Justice Scalia: “It’s up to Mitch McConnell.  “IT IS NOT IMPORTANT TO ME.”
Today on CNN’s State of the Union, former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL), GOP presidential candidate, joined CNN chief political correspondent, Dana Bash to discuss last night’s GOP debate, the South Carolina primary, and the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

MANDATORY CREDIT: CNN’s “State of the Union”

TEXT HIGHLIGHTS

Bush on the Senate scheduling a vote to replace Justice Scalia:

[BASH]: Governor Bush let’s start with the passing of Justice Scalia. Sen. Cruz, Sen. Rubio, and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell all say that the next president should replace Scalia, not president Obama. At the debate it sounded like you disagree, what is your position?

[BUSH]: No, I think President Obama is going to submit a nominee and all likelihood this person will be out of the mainstream and will be rejected by the Senate. That’s his prerogative, he has every right to do it. The Senate has every right not to confirm that person. And that’s what I said. He clearly has the power to do it. But given his choices of Supreme Court Justices in the past, the Senate of the United States should not confirm someone who is out of the mainstream.

[BASH]: But if I could just clarify, right now, it sounds as though the Republicans who run the Senate are not going to even schedule a vote. Do you think one should be scheduled?

[BUSH]: It’s up to Mitch McConnell. It is not important to me

Bush on his clashes with Trump in last night’s GOP debate: “I don’t know him well enough to not like him. I do think that he would not be the proper nominee for our party. He’s not a conservative. He’s not a serious person. His conversation, his-in debates when he talks about foreign policy. It’s-it’s scary. To-to-to say that Russia could be an ally? He basically seemed more interested in Putin than my brother for example. I mean we shouldn’t be changing teams here. We ought to be focused on what are the, what’s the national security interests of our own country.”

Bush on his brother coming out on the campaign trail: “The point is, Is he a popular republican? You bet he is. And he will make the point, I think I hope tomorrow, that he knows what it takes to be president of the United States to be commander in chief to keep the country safe and that he believes that I have those skills based on my record and based on how he knows me, and that will be validator in SC where values matter and where national defense matters a lot. So I’m looking forward to the event we should have a great crowd and it’ll help my campaign a lot.”

Bush on his goals for the South Carolina primary: “My candid goal is to beat expectations, whatever those are, I intend to be in this over the long haul. As others drop out my hope is to be there to take on the front running candidate…My expectation is I’ll beat expectations here.”

What a joke Jeb is!  The Elites are keeping him in to divide the votes.

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