--- title: Jeb Bush Makes the Case That Donald Trump Isn't Conservative description: The former Florida Governor ticks through ways the GOP frontrunner has positions that would be more at home among Democrats. canonical: https://time.com/4172287/jeb-bush-donald-trump-conservative/ author: Philip Elliott article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-08T01:38:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:46:44.977Z article:section: Politics og:title: Bush Makes the Case That Trump Is Not Conservative og:description: A change in tactics. og:url: https://time.com/4172287/jeb-bush-donald-trump-conservative/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86cce354f67f3310/69887824cd1bba078e6fed62/donald-trump-jeb-bush.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush holds a meet and greet at Chico's Restaurant on December 28, 2015 in Hialeah, Florida. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bush Makes the Case That Trump Is Not Conservative twitter:description: A change in tactics. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86cce354f67f3310/69887824cd1bba078e6fed62/donald-trump-jeb-bush.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Bush Makes the Case That Trump Is Not Conservative > Sponsored content. 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Johnny Louis—FilmMagic  by [Philip Elliott / Peterborough, N.H.](https://time.com/author/philip-elliott/)  ## Philip Elliott / Peterborough, N.H. Senior Correspondent Jan 8, 2016 1:38 AM UTC Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Thursday upped his criticism of Donald Trump Thursday. For months, Bush has cast Trump’s bombast as disqualifying, his bluster dangerous and his foreign policy a folly. Now, Bush is going another route, arguing that Trump is insufficiently conservative and, maybe, a closet Democrat. “If people think Donald Trump is a conservative, prove it to me. I mean, really,” Bush said during a town hall in the iconic town hall in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Ticking through previous Trump positions on abortion rights, taxes and guns, Bush seemed well-briefed on his rival’s record in very specific detail. “He gives money to the Clinton Foundation. He thinks Hillary Clinton would be a great negotiator with Iran. He gave money to her campaign. Until recently, he was a Democrat. He supported Bill Clinton when he ran for President,” Bush said. Every charge is true, although Trump says he regrets those moves that took place before he decided to run for President himself. Bush kept hammering at Trump. “He was for a single-payer (health care system) system. Now he’s changed his mind. He was not a Second Amendment believer until he changed his mind. He was not only pro-choice but he believed in partial-birth abortion,” Bush said. “He supported a tax of 14 ½% tax on assets 10 years ago but now he’s changed.” **Read More:** [_Jeb Bush Backers Bought a Billboard to Troll Donald Trump_](http://time.com/4172077/jeb-bush-donald-trump-billboard/) An animated Bush seemed to be enjoying himself, letting lose on the research his campaign put in his briefings. “Can you trust Donald Trump to actually be a conservative? I don’t think so,” Bush said in a made-for-TV conclusion. “I think the conservative cause is worth fighting for.” It makes sense that Bush would know this. Trump’s primacy in the GOP primary has been in place for months, and Bush has a mind for specifics. But it was a slight twist of the screw for Bush. He had long make the case that Trump was simply too unpredictable for voters to risk, and his temperament would put the United States in danger. The pivot to domestic policy-based specifics about Trump is coming as time is running out for voters to derail his march to the nomination. The Trump rift is likely to come up during Q&A with voters, and is not yet part of his standard campaign speech, aides said. Aides were visibly pleased that their boss finally has started this line of criticism. “A conservative party should nominate a conservative candidate, not someone who has been all over the map,” Bush said. For Bush, it’s a bet that New Hampshire’s flinty voters will side with serious over circus within the next month. “You take it seriously. You ask the right questions. You make the discerning decisions,” said Bush, who still badly trails Trump in national and early-state polls. “I have enough confidence in the voters of New Hampshire to make the right decision.” **Read Next:** [_Republicans Fight to Be the Not-Trump in New Hampshire_](http://time.com/4170578/donald-trump-new-hampshire-second-place/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4172287/jeb-bush-donald-trump-conservative/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4172287/jeb-bush-donald-trump-conservative/"},"headline":"Bush Makes the Case That Trump Is Not Conservative","datePublished":"2016-01-08T01:38:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:46:44.977Z","description":"'A conservative party should nominate a conservative candidate'","url":"https://time.com/4172287/jeb-bush-donald-trump-conservative/","keywords":["jeb bush","2016 Election","new hampshire","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86cce354f67f3310/69887824cd1bba078e6fed62/donald-trump-jeb-bush.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Philip Elliott / Peterborough, N.H."}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86cce354f67f3310/69887824cd1bba078e6fed62/donald-trump-jeb-bush.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush holds a meet and greet at Chico's Restaurant on December 28, 2015 in Hialeah, Florida.","caption":"Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush holds a meet and greet at Chico's Restaurant on December 28, 2015 in Hialeah, Florida.","creditText":"Johnny Louis—FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/jeb-bush/","name":"jeb bush"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4172287/jeb-bush-donald-trump-conservative/","name":"Bush Makes the Case That Trump Is Not Conservative"}}]}] ```