Jeb Bush's casting of himself as the anti-Trump, the grown up in the room, a smart move if he wins the primaries but creates a vulnerability
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Thing is Bush has to win the primaries first & he's created an opening for a smart rightist to be both anti-Trump and anti-Bush.
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Party activists, social scientists tell us, are a key gatekeeper in GOP primary. Many of those activists very conservative but not pro-Trump
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So the pitch of Walker/Rubio/Cruz would be: I'm much more electable than Trump but not a climate-change-believing sellout like Jeb Bush.
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This is why I'm still bullish on Cruz despite his languishing in polls so far. More than the others, he knows how to talk language of base
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Leaving aside which candidate can pick up the mantle, Trumpism without Trump would be a potent selling point in GOP.
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