Jeb Bush doesn't think Donald Trump is conservative enough to win

During their dueling town hall meetings Wednesday in New Hampshire, both Donald Trump and Jeb Bush made jabs at each other, with Trump saying Bush's crowd was "sleeping" during his event and Bush questioning Trump's political loyalties.

"Mr. Trump does not have a conservative record," Bush said. "He was a Democrat longer than he was a Republican. He's given more money to Democrats than he's given to Republicans. We're a conservative party, aren't we, the Republican party?" Trump's signature issue has become his hardline approach to immigration, which calls for immediate deportation of undocumented immigrants and the building of a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, paid for by Mexico. Bush said that this wasn't truly conservative. "The language is pretty vitriolic, for sure, but hundreds of billions of dollars of cost to implement his plans is not a conservative plan," he said.

A Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll has Trump leading the GOP presidential candidates in New Hampshire with 18 percent support, the Hill reports. Bush is in second place with 13 percent.

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