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

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."

Bush also took issue with another GOP presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee, who over the weekend said President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran will "take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven." Bush told reporters in Orlando that he does not agree with the deal, but added, "The use of that kind of language is just wrong. This is not the way we're going to win elections and that's not how we're going to solve problems. So, unfortunate remark — not quite sure why he felt compelled to say it."

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