NEW YORK TIMES
By ASHLEY PARKER and MICHAEL BARBARO
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Jeb Bush
dropped out of the presidential race on Saturday, ending a quest for
the White House that started with a war chest of $100 million, a famous
name and a promise of political civility but concluded with a humbling
recognition: In 2016, none of it mattered.
No
single candidacy this year fell so short of its original expectations.
It began with an aura of inevitability that masked deep problems, from
Mr. Bush himself, a clunky candidate in a field of gifted performers, to
the rightward drift of the Republican Party since Mr. Bush’s time as a consensus conservative in Florida.
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But the calamitous slow-motion collapse of a candidate so certain that his resume, Rolodex and fundraising prowess would make him a strong contender—if not the prohibitive front-runner—for his party’s nomination has nevertheless been stunning to behold. On Saturday evening, Bush dropped out of the presidential race after a disappointing finish in South Carolina, a state that had once been so kind to his father and brother.
In hindsight, there were telltale clues from the start. Bush’s Right to Rise super-PAC raised some $100 million last year—most of it before he even formally declared his candidacy—yet he still couldn’t manage to clear the raucous and splintered Republican field the way his older brother largely did in 1999.
As other campaigns scrambled to raise money, Bush’s PAC had money to burn, and burn it they did, mailing small video players with a 15-minute Jeb! documentary pre-downloaded to voters in New Hampshire, and buying digital billboard space in Iowa, where Bush wound up spending nearly $3,000 a vote and finishing in sixth place.
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An unrivaled
political pedigree and $100-million war chest were not enough to
overcome an undeniable fact: voters didn’t buy what Jeb Bush was
selling.
Even
by the normal laws of Republican political physics, 2016 was never a
lock to be Jeb Bush’s year. The prospect that voters would pick three
presidents from two generations of just one family always struck plenty
of politicos as at least one Bush too far.But the calamitous slow-motion collapse of a candidate so certain that his resume, Rolodex and fundraising prowess would make him a strong contender—if not the prohibitive front-runner—for his party’s nomination has nevertheless been stunning to behold. On Saturday evening, Bush dropped out of the presidential race after a disappointing finish in South Carolina, a state that had once been so kind to his father and brother.
In hindsight, there were telltale clues from the start. Bush’s Right to Rise super-PAC raised some $100 million last year—most of it before he even formally declared his candidacy—yet he still couldn’t manage to clear the raucous and splintered Republican field the way his older brother largely did in 1999.
As other campaigns scrambled to raise money, Bush’s PAC had money to burn, and burn it they did, mailing small video players with a 15-minute Jeb! documentary pre-downloaded to voters in New Hampshire, and buying digital billboard space in Iowa, where Bush wound up spending nearly $3,000 a vote and finishing in sixth place.
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