Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign released a new video Thursday, contrasting Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton’s email scandal with his own track record of transparency as governor of Florida.
The minute-long montage of political pundits railing against Clinton’s lack of transparency and refusal to provide further details about the private email server she kept as secretary of state comes just one day after Clinton’s camp released their own video attempting to portray Bush as sharing similar views on immigration as GOP front-runner Donald Trump.
“They’re always hiding something, the Clintons,” one pundit said in a clip from MSNBC included in Bush’s latest ad. “There’s always a trap door.”
Another soundbite featured a pundit saying, “Jeb Bush scored a nice little victory against Clinton in this because he released so many of the emails that he wrote as governor.”
“Some of them are actually pretty revealing of what was going on in his head,” the MSNBC contributor noted.
Bush, who recently handed out his private email address and encouraged voters to message him during the Iowa State Fair, announced Tuesday that he plans to publish an e-book titled “Reply All” in October which will contain every email he sent or received during his tenure as Florida’s governor from 1999 to 2007.
Last December, the top-tier Republican hopeful released 250,000 emails “in the interest of transparency” ahead of announcing his White House bid.
“While [Clinton] dodges and hides, Governor Bush has consistently chosen the path of transparency. The contrast couldn’t be clearer,” the former governor’s campaign wrote in a statement accompanying the video.
According to a national poll released Thursday by Quinnipiac University, Bush currently ties with Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz at 7 percent support among Republican voters. The brother of former President George W. Bush also has a negative favorability rating of 32 to 41 percent among all voters.
