[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
On the 17 April 2015 edition of NBC Nightly News, Peter Alexander hinted that the Republican Party's internal battles over conservative principles caused its losses in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. Alexander asked former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, "How are you going to help the party overcome the ideological problems that, sort of, torpedoed it in 2008 and 2012?"
When Bush replied, "I don't think we have an ideological problem," the correspondent asserted that "Bush may dismiss any ideological problem. But conservatives on the right have serious concerns about his positions on immigration and education – both of which could give him headaches going forward."