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We remixed Jeb Bush’s ‘please clap’ moment to make it less pathetic

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Miles Klee

Internet Culture

Posted on Feb 3, 2016   Updated on May 27, 2021, 6:45 am CDT

After a truly dismal sixth-place finish among GOP presidential contenders in the Iowa caucus on Monday, Jeb Bush continued to struggle on the campaign trail. Always game to kick a guy when he’s down, the Internet then seized on this painful moment from a New Hampshire event, in which Bush asks an audience as beleaguered as he is to “please clap.”

https://vine.co/v/iJrxOTQlqPM

Since his supporters didn’t offer him much, ahem, support—we went ahead and remixed this footage to give Jeb the approval he desperately needs.

https://vine.co/v/iJ6qgVghBrj

You’re welcome.

Photo via Gage Skidmore/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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*First Published: Feb 3, 2016, 6:07 pm CST