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While strong in iowa, new hampshire is a tougher place. there will be a candidate representing the kind of voters flocking to trump tonight in alabama. if youre ted cruz or scott walker or rick santorum and you thought you were going to be that guy, now you have the real possibility that trump could be the finalist from that wing and that is within the realm of possibility. >> maeve, youre speaking to the republican campaigns. top strategists, staffers. what are they saying to you? how concerned...

Busting through bureaucracies and making the state government of florida work for them. jeb needs to show what made him a great governor. and i think the challenge of running as a constituent-free candidate, i put jeb in that category, you no longer are speaking to people who have voted for you. youre no longer speaking to people with skin in the game in terms of every decision you make, in terms of everything -- jeb is not in a position anymore as he was when he was governor to rattle the cages...

If i ran one of those british betting services id still bet jeb versus the field, but i think the more this dynamic stays the same the more that hes in this strange sort of amorphous place where hes ill defined but everybody around him is getting defined. i dont think hell stay stationery. but right now, i can tell you and im sure kasie heard the same thing, nobody up there dislikes jeb but nobody up there is excited about him. its just sort of as our friend pat buchanan would say, his support a...

Jeb has the support of a lot of people in the establishment, a lot of donors. the question that you hear a lot of republican -- even people who are generally sympathetic to him, what is his base in the party? who is for him out there. and there is now whether chris christie or marco rubio or scott walker to some extent or even john kasich who is now talking about getting in there are a lot of people about to encroach on that establishment turf and he doesnt have that turf locked down even as it ...

Sunglasses this time im sure. so what are her challenges going into new hampshire? weve been talking about some of jebs challenges. hillary is really running against herself. >> and running against the press. i think shes got -- that is a challenge unto itself. but for her in particular because the clintons relationship with the press has never been great. she believes the press corps is incredibly loss stillhostile to her. and her first week has only reinforced that in her head because shes sub...

Union, im not sure what the jeb bush brand is. >> but thats a very pundity kind of comment. >> except for the fact that jeb has disappeared a bit over the past deckade or so. so i think that makes it more of a challenge for him to define himself. one other thing though what i was just talking about going back to the midwest and the northeast, something you know a lot about his money, one of the reasons why that always worked is because the establishment always had the money, you could write a $1...

He was a republicans republican. >> and not anti-government. my dad is anti- this government but he does want things to work. >> i think he was probably more conservative than that. he was a small government guy, but he was conservative with a small c. and weve seen it time and team again in our lifetime where early on people catch attention and then sort of the establishment guys like jeb -- i call my dad a midwest republican. they run hot in iowa they run hot this new hampshire, they run hot i...

Tradition, jeb bush is the likely nominee. we tending to be as republican and nominate the conventional choice. so i think when you look at those numbers, theyre pretty good numbers. theyre steady numbers and he hasnt even announced. so i take very much consolation in the fact that hes always at the top of the list. he knows this conventionally, the republican partys base and 50% of activist republicans identify themselves as evangelicals. this has always been the challenge for middle of the roa...

Practical now or lose the primary to win the general without losing your principles its not an easy task. >> lets get right to it. thank you so much for being with me. robert, you advised the last bush in office. how is what jeb said going to resonate with the republican party as 2016 fast approaches? >> i think so. and the reason why because he was a successful governor for two terms. hes bilingual. shes been a strong proponent of education reform and immigration reform. and also with a lot of ...

>> that doesnt change the fact that youre going to have -- >> here is the reality -- >> jeb bush is a conservative and conservative like him. >> we have to wrap this one up. ill have you both back on. im thinking that maybe jeb and hillary will be in the headlines for some time to come. were waiting any second to hear from speaker john boehner. hes yet to arrive from that closed door meeting. and when he does well bring you his statements live so you wont miss anything here on "the rundown."