Jeb Bush Had a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

After repeatedly struggling to answer a question about whether, in hindsight, he would have supported the Iraq war, Jeb Bush finally answered that he “would not have gone into Iraq” on Thursday. It was the fourth answer in four days that he had given to that question. But while Bush’s fumbles with the question, initially asked by Megyn Kelly in a Fox News interview on Monday night, marked perhaps the lowest point so far of the former Florida’s governor still undeclared campaign for the White House, it’s unclear if the controversy will affect his chances of being elected. Yet for all of Bush’s fumbling over the Iraq war, Republicans don’t see the issue as something that will have much of an impact on the nomination. As Stuart Stevens, a top GOP consultant, told the Guardian: “I don’t see this as something we would be talking about while waiting to get results from New Hampshire or Iowa.”