And so as Jeb! tries to reboot his campaign for the fifth time, his staff is urging patience, but also indicating that things might get a lot worse before they get better for the Bush campaign:
(Quoted tweet from Bush's communication director: FYI political press corps. Jeb's going to have a few weeks of bad polls. Comebacks take time, we recognize and are prepared for that.)
The fact that Bush’s communication director felt the need to launch a pre-emptive warning is a pretty good sign that his campaign’s internal polling numbers paint a pretty dark picture for what’s to come. We’ll have to wait a bit longer for the first full post-debate national surveys to see what the numbers say about a man who began the year as the de facto favorite for his party’s nomination.