2016 presidential candidate, talking about jeb bush, he went one step further touring a charter school in southern florida. while there he was asked about his 2016 plans. i m considering, i m going to think about it later. so i don t wake up each day saying what am i going to do today to make this decision. i m deferring the decision to the right time, which is later this year. and the decision will be based on can i do it joyfully, because i think we need to have candidates lift our spirits. it s a pretty pessimistic country right now. and is it right for my family? i don t want to even think about that until the right time. and that s later on. and your mother said he is qualified, but i hope he doesn t run. yeah, she promised me she wouldn t keep saying this, but she s 89 years old. and if you have elderly parents or grandparents, you know that they speak their mind. there s not much stopping between thinking and speaking. i love her. i m sure she loves him as
well. chief political analyst gloria borger is here. the fact that barbara bush said, he is qualified but i hope he doesn t run, does that make it harder for him to decide to run if he decides to run? it s a little awkward that a 60-year-old guy has to kind of say publicly, come on, mom, you know. no, it doesn t make it anymore difficult for him. look, she s expressed it before. she clearly doesn t want to have to go through a campaign again. she s had a husband who did it, she s had another son who s been president. she makes an interesting point, which is isn t there anybody other than the clintons and the bushes who can run for the presidency? so i think it s kind of embarrassing for him, but he handled it very well. yeah. he s obviously a smart, talented person. he s 60. it s not like he s 15, right? let s look at this new abc/washington post poll on republican potential for 2016. paul ryan, you see with 20%. jeb bush 18%. chris christie 13%.
that s something to consider when you talk about a transition in the party to younger base, they brought in all these younger voters. it might be a mismatch. but if hillary clinton doesn t run, and we assume she s going to run, assuming she s healthy. right. if she doesn t run, do you think he would run? the way i look at these guys is they re running until they say they re not running. unless you rule it out, you re basically you re running. that is the process of running. right? you do all the things, you make sure the media talk about you, you don t rule it out. you start organizing. you do all those things. so in my mind he s running and hillary clinton is running even though they haven t publicly declared. and at the point where they say, okay, i m not running, that means they lost. i think that s the sort of useful way to look it must be frustrating. he s been vice president for five years. as ryan says, a good vice president, five years. to see all these obama folks
one way or the other. if she runs, let s go and if she doesn t run, other people need traction. they are all in limbo waiting for her to make a decision. guy, the cover of the new york times sunday magazine this hit stands. it is hillary clinton there, it purports to she her as a planet and the angle is that all of these satellite people sort of orbit around her. but i think you agree it is hilo unflattering photograph. this hardly seems to make her a media darling on the new york times. what dow make of the cover? that cover will give me night terror asks wake up cold sweating with that image in my mind. it is kroepy and not a good photoshop. i feel they could do a better job in the new york times. as for the priors usa super pac.
step. there s no question about it, but i think a lot of people in the democratic party, thomas, really, really are hoping that she does this, because if she doesn t run, you look at the candidates after her and you look at although some of them are very admirable people, you look at their ability to win nationwide, there s a pretty clear dropoff from hillary clinton to the second tier. i d also like to say that i thought the most interesting aspect of this article for me was how it signalled there are going to be a lot of new people in hillary land, as it s called this time around if she does run. she has been, and i followed her 2000 senate race very closely, and from her years as first lady, through that race, through her reelection campaign of senate, even through the state department, pretty steady group of people, advisers, people she s been close to, people tend to stay very loyal to her, but now apparently there s going to be a lot of new faces in a 2016