Jeb Bush Is Killing Jobs Already–In His Own Campaign

After months of being kicked around by Donald Trump, and getting used to the low altitude of the middle of the GOP presidential pack, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is slimming down his presidential campaign. According to Politico, Jeb’s staff is being axed like old timber:

Jeb Bush on Friday ordered a wholesale restructuring of his struggling campaign after suffering miserably in the polls despite massive spending and a deep donor network.

The campaign will cut payroll costs by 40 percent, downsize its Miami headquarters by more than 50 percent, reduce travel costs by 20 percent and cut 45 percent of spending on things other than media and voter contact.

The news has been greeted with gleeful schadenfreude by Bush critics, which run the gamut of political ideology, but this doesn’t mean Jeb is anywhere near dropping out of the race. No, the buried lede here is that Donald Trump is right about yet another thing…READ MORE

By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.