Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Thursday that a forthcoming campaign ad strongly attacks rival Donald Trump because "you can't ignore Donald Trump."
"His views are not traditional conservative views," the former Florida governor told Gretchen Carlson on
Fox News. "When he says that ISIS isn't a threat or when he said — just yesterday — that North Korea, that's China's problem, really?
"Do you think North Korea, if they have the capability of building atomic weapons — the hydrogen bomb, perhaps — and building long-range missile capabilities that could attack California, that it's not in our national-security interest to have an interest in North Korea.
"This is either way naive or grounded in a view that looks like the views of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama," Bush said. "It's fair game."
Carlson previewed a new Bush television spot in which he slams both Trump and Democrat Clinton such global issues as the Islamic State and worldwide terrorism. It is due out in the next week.
"Across the board, we need a comprehensive strategy," he told Fox. "You can't contain ISIS, which has been Barack Obama's advocacy, or you can't say as Hillary Clinton has said: We're in a good place now. We're not.
"Every day they exist is the day they recruit people to attack people in Paris or conceivably the United States," Bush said. "We have to declare war on them, because they have declared war on us."
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