Pro-Hillary PAC puts Jeb! back on his heels.

The comments came during a heated exchange with Trump, and Bush's campaign thinks they will contribute to the eventual demise of the Republican front-runner. But Democrats accuse Bush of either forgetting or overlooking the fact that the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania happened on his brother's watch. And polls released Sunday suggest that Trump's lead in the GOP field is holding steady.

Beyond the 9/11 attacks, the ad suggests that George W. Bush did not keep Americans safe from "a crumbling economy," "a bureaucratic catastrophe" and "an unnecessary war."

"It’s as if Jeb Bush believes his brother’s presidency began on September 12th, 2001. But we’re not letting Jeb rewrite history," Brad Woodhouse, president of Americans United for Change, said in a statement about the ad. "It’s convenient but not honest to ignore the facts that the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor happened on George W. Bush’s watch after dismissing warnings from U.S. intelligence officials weeks before 9/11 that Osama bin Laden was ‘determined to strike in US’ and that his terrorist network might hijack American planes."

On Friday night, Jeb Bush reiterated his belief that his brother deftly handled national security and foreign affairs. Speaking at a Michigan conference for some of the Republican Party's most generous donors, he said that the next president will need to do a better job with international relations than President Obama has.


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