Likely 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush had some harsh criticism of President Obama during visit to South Carolina Tuesday, arguing that the president has failed to live up to the duties of the job and has further divided the country.
Bush stressed the need for Washington to come to “consensus.”
“It’s the president’s responsibility to reweave the web of civility and to improve the discourse. And this guy does not believe it’s his priority or his mission to do that,” Bush said.
“But from the very beginning of his time as president, he has not done that. Every chance he’s had to validate his mandate, which was not that, ‘I’m going to be the most hard-left president in American history.’ It was was there are no blue states, no red states, only the United States,” Bush said.
“He won because of that,” Bush added. “And he has invalidated that every chance he’s had. After every election he’s not tried to develop personal relationships with people that don’t completely agree with him. And our democracy has been hurt by that.”
Watch a clip of the interview below:
(H/t Bloomberg Politics)
