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19. Reporters following jeb's campaign feel pity for him. Voters give him advice

Reporters following Jeb Bush's campaign say that although they might not support him, there’s a level of personal sympathy for the former Florida governor.
Bush's media corps feels his pain
As the ex-front runner struggles, he gets sympathy from an unusual quarter — reporters covering his campaign.


At a recent campaign Jeb Bush event in South Carolina, three voters in a row who were supposed to be asking him questions instead started giving the gentle-spirited candidate, who once pledged to run a “joyful” campaign, advice on how to be sharper.

It felt more like an intervention than a town hall. Reporters sitting at a table reserved for the press recalled making rueful eye contact with each other, with the unsaid sentiment, “Poor Jeb.”


Bush has had the media’s pity for months now. Reporters following the Bush campaign insist that it’s not that they support him or are rooting for him at all. But there’s a level of personal sympathy for the former Florida governor, for the man who was supposed to be the front runner but hasn’t been close to the top in months.

One correspondent for a major television network opined in New Hampshire that Bush was supposed to be “the” candidate, the one with the pedigree, experience, and money to go the distance.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/jeb-bush-media-sympathy-219522#ixzz40lEJIKZC