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So it's fine, as far as it goes. but it's pretty close to the ninth inning for bush. >> your reading of the situation with the former front-runner. it's hard to remember that there was a time when jeb bush was the front-runner in this field of candidates. . >> the super pa skr going to have to make a decision about whether these attacks on donald trump are about trying to actually take trump out of the race or at least knock him down a few pegs. or whether they're about defining jeb bush as the moderate or the centrist or the establishment alternative.

>> he has a much clearer path to the nomination than either of the last two victors in iowa because he's well organized in south carolina and across the south and because he has strength with evangelical christians and against donald trump, he looks like the establishment alternative, if it came down to the two of them which would be a surprise to many in the republican establishment in washington. >> he has the potential to inherit a lot of donald trump supporters if trump doesn't make it all the way. >> as he has already done with ben carson supporters. that's been the source of a lot of the...

I like donald trump. and you're right, i have consistently declined daily invitations from our friends in the press please attack donald trump, we'll give anything, we'll set a cage match. >> chris cillizza, there is some thought that ted cruz is gaining in iowa, is now past ben carson in some of the polling in iowa and may be setting himself as the establishment alternative to donald trump. >> well, i don't know if he could be the establishment anything, even though he is a sitting u.s. senator, because he is so roundly disliked by the establishment. there is one bipartisan thing in washingto...

Clear clear politics average. belief that he is like will you the establishment alternative. you see i have very little down for jeb but that's, you know, that's my side bet and i put $5 down on chris christie because this week he won the george will prime march. he got a very favorable column from our colleague here at fox. reflective of a broader feeling that he has run a pretty good campaign even though still very far down in the polls. >> okay. we asked people on twitter and facebook to weigh in. jim has cruz 50, trump 30, rubio 10. carly fiorina 10. steven has rubio at 60. cruz 30. trump ...

Ben carson. doesn't seem to have slowed trump down today. >> i'm way up in florida over everybody but marco is a sitting senator and he doesn't show up for the people of florida. look at marco's stance on illegal immigration. it's really trouble for him. i don't see how he can win. all you have to do is look at his credit card. i mean, he is a disaster with his credit cards. he certainly lives above his means. there's no question about that. >> joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza, msnbc contributor, co-founder of the "the washington post" fix blog and "usa today" washington bureau...