Jeb Bush was 'hurt' by Donald Trump's comments about Mexican immigrants

Jeb Bush.
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In an interview conducted entirely in Spanish on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said he was "herido" — the Spanish word for "hurt" — by comments Donald Trump made about Mexican immigrants last month, specifically that those coming to the U.S. are "rapists" who are bringing "drugs" and "crime" to the country.

“I was hurt hearing somebody speaking in such a vulgar fashion,” Bush, whose wife is from Mexico, told MSNBC's Jose Diaz-Balart. "This makes solving this problem much more difficult. When we can have politicians like that we cannot progress. In a political sense it was bad, and it creates an environment that is worse."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.