Jul.4
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Indignant Jeb Bush Says He Takes Donald Trump’s Remarks Personally
MERRIMACK, N.H. – Jeb Bush, whose wife is Mexican and three children were raised to celebrate their bicultural roots, showed a flash of anger on Saturday as he said that he “absolutely” took personal offense when Donald Trump recently described Mexican immigrants coming to the United States as “rapists” and criminals.
Mr. Bush, a former Florida governor, used his strongest language yet to denounce Mr. Trump, a rival for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination and the second-place finisher behind Mr. Bush in a New Hampshire poll that was conducted after Mr. Trump made those remarks. Mr. Bush, after marching in an Independence Day parade here with two of his children, George and Noelle, said that Mr. Trump’s views are “way out of the mainstream” of the party.
“To make these extraordinarily ugly kind of comments is not reflective of the Republican Party,” Mr. Bush said about Mr. Trump, whose comments caused NBC, Univision, Macy’s and others to cut ties with him.
“He’s doing this — he’s not a stupid guy, so I don’t assume he thinks that every Mexican crossing the border is a rapist. He’s doing this to inflame and incite and to draw attention, which seems to be the organizing principle of his campaign,” Mr. Bush said.
Asked if he took Mr. Trump’s remarks personally, given his family, Mr. Bush became a little cross.
“Yeah, of course it — absolutely — and a lot of other people” did as well, he said. “But politically, we’re going to win when we’re hopeful and optimistic and big and broad rather than errrrr, grrrr, just angry all the time. This is an exaggerated form of that, and there is no tolerance for it.”
Another Republican candidate, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, gave a different answer on Friday when asked about Mr. Trump, a longtime friend. He criticized Mr. Trump’s remarks but then appeared to vouch for him.
“I like Donald. He’s a good guy,” Mr. Christie said. “And as I said right from the beginning, he’ll be as serious a candidate as he wants to be. Those are his choices.”
Mr. Trump issued a statement in response to the criticism, saying, “Today, Jeb Bush once again proves that he is out of touch with the American people. Just like the simple question asked of Jeb on Iraq, where it took him five days and multiple answers to get it right, he doesn’t understand anything about the border or border security. In fact, Jeb believes illegal immigrants who break our laws when they cross our border come “out of love.” ”
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Protesters Challenge Hillary Clinton During Parade in New Hampshire
Hillary Rodham Clinton made her first visit of the campaign to northern New Hampshire on Saturday, marching in a Fourth of July parade alongside dozens of her supporters and, for the first time since she became a candidate, being met by a handful of persistent protesters.
Mrs. Clinton walked in front of a large sign with her campaign logo at the parade in Gorham, N.H., and a group of supporters chanted her name as they walked along. People along the sidewalks called out “Hillary!” to her on Main Street, urging her to shake their hands.
But there was other chanting as well, from a tall man on the sidelines who carried a sign that read “Benghazi” with red paint stains on it.
“Carpetbagger!” he called out repeatedly, a charge leveled against Mrs. Clinton when she first ran for the Senate in 2000 (and not used much since). He was joined by a half-dozen other protesters who followed her along the route in the working-class area, trying repeatedly to get her attention.
“Where were you at 3 o’clock in the morning when the phone rang!” the man yelled. “Tell us about when you were poor!”
A handful of Clinton volunteers eventually drifted toward the sidewalks, chanting her name in an effort to drown the protesters out. Mrs. Clinton never acknowledged them, as she took pictures with a group of beauty queens and stopped to talk to a wounded Marine, injured in Iraq, who was in a wheelchair and could not communicate.
“He can understand everything you say to him,” Nellie Bagli said of her 40-year-old son, Jose, who was seriously wounded in March 2006.
“I can see that in his eyes,” Mrs. Clinton said.
Ms. Bagli told reporters she lives in Florida and that the cooler climate of New Hampshire benefits her son’s health. She is unsure of whether she will support Mrs. Clinton, she said, adding that after what her son had gone through, “it’s hard to believe” what politicians say.
Mrs. Clinton’s aides, in what they said was an effort to allow voters to reach her freely without her being surrounded by a mass of reporters, kept the dozen journalists covering the event behind a length of rope carried by two campaign aides.
When the parade ended, Mrs. Clinton held up her hands in a shrug when asked whether the protesters were jarring.
At another point, she was asked the same question and said, “I’m just having a good time meeting everybody.”
Aides said they selected the location for Mrs. Clinton’s Fourth of July event because she had not visited the region yet during the campaign, and other parades were in parts of the state she had traveled to already.
Later, Mrs. Clinton made an unscheduled stop to the Northland Dairy Bar in nearby Berlin, which was fairly empty. She chatted with the patrons there, before heading toward a corner table. There were slices of pie waiting for her.
“O.K., you guys are not gonna film me eating,” Mrs. Clinton said, laughing, as she urged the reporters who were there to move on. “This is not newsworthy. Take a picture of me standing here in front of these great pies by myself. It’s a headline! It’s a headline.”
Mitt Romney Criticizes Donald Trump for Comments on Mexican Immigrants
Mitt Romney criticized the real-estate mogul and presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday, saying he was damaging the Republican Party with his comments linking Mexican immigrants to crime.
Mr. Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, spoke at a Fourth of July parade in Wolfeboro, N.H., where he owns a home. He was asked whether Mr. Trump’s comments depicting Mexican immigrants as violent predators had hurt a party that has been trying to make inroads with Hispanics.
“Yes,” he replied, in remarks reported by CNN. “I think he made a severe error in saying what he did about Mexican-Americans.”
Some of Mr. Trump’s Republican rivals, like Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, former governors Jeb Bush of Florida and George E. Pataki of New York, have also taken issue with his comments. And the Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has been alluding to the comments in trying to portray the Republican field as a whole as anti-immigrant.
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