Are we witnessing its beginnings? While mired in single digits over the last month or so in polls, largely due to Donald Trump's onslaught against him which now appears to be fading (at least from within the Republican Party), the Crown Prince's recent numbers are inching upward as Trump's slowly fade. In the latest Quinnipiac poll, Bush is now 10 percent, and at an even better 13 percent in the Bloomberg poll.
Scott Walker's complete implosion, and his hasty exit from the race perhaps provides the most compelling case for Bush's eventual success at buying the Republican nomination. Unless Rubio can upstage him as the establishment choice (a long shot), only Trump, Carson, and Fiorina (none of which can surmount prohibitive structural bias against their non-Establishment candidacies) stand between him and a shot at the imperial purple.
Consider this recent Huffington Post article, The GOP Nomination: It's Still Jeb [JEB!] Bush.
Trump, though, probably still holds the "trump" card for the final deal. Trump's entire campaign seems built around destroying Bush, and as Bush's numbers have tanked in recent weeks, Trump's energy level has gotten "lower." Now that Bush is resurging, Trump's vitriol against institutional agents of Bush family hegemony (such as Fox News) have resurfaced. The end result should be an independent run by Trump if Bush manages to buy the nomination. Trump is in no way bound by his show "agreement" (which he can conveniently repudiate anytime he decides he is no longer being treated "fairly' by the Republican leadership), and this promises to be the real story of the election. Does he, or does he not?
Trump in no way can win a presidential election, and probably can't stop JEB! from being his family's party nominee, but he can, if he really desires, probably stop JEB! from buying the presidency.
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