With the media's recent glut of Donald Trump coverage, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is being left out.
Bush suffers from a relevance problem, said Politico's chief White House correspondent, Mike Allen, during his appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday.
"People aren't talking about Jeb Bush," Allen said in the segment, which can be viewed above. But they are talking about Trump, he said, or in the case of New Hampshire, Ohio Governor John Kasich.
Allen referred to a recent Politico poll that asked Iowa and New Hampshire GOP insiders whether they believed Bush's campaign was in trouble in their state. According to the poll, 54 percent of respondents in Iowa and 43 percent in New Hampshire believed that Bush's campaign was indeed in trouble.
"Jeb Bush needs to get on the radar," Allen said. "He did that this week the way so many of the candidates have: and that is to attack Trump, to talk about Trump."
Allen said that Bush's attacks on Trump have not been embraced by the former Florida governor's supporters, particularly the Bush-aligned Right to Rise PAC.
Right to Rise chief strategist Mike Murphy recently told The Washington Post that the PAC would not spend money attacking Trump.
"Trump is, frankly, other people’s problem," he told the Post. "We’d be happy to have a two-way race with Trump in the end, and we have every confidence that Governor Bush would beat him.”