An excerpt of Jeb Bush's speech on Thursday. Woman nods off during Jeb speech

One woman seemed rather low on energy during a town hall event for Republican candidate Jeb Bush on Thursday, struggling to keep her eyes open and yawning during part of Bush's event.

The Bush campaign identified the woman only as Tara, a working mom who woke up at 4 a.m. for a 12-hour shift to see the former governor of Florida speak.


A 108-second video posted to YouTube shows a woman seated behind Bush, sporting a Boston Red Sox cap. She is alternately closing her eyes and yawning as Bush discussed health care insurance at a town hall at Foss Manufacturing in Hampton, New Hampshire. Resting her head on her left hand, the woman is turned slightly to her left, facing away from Bush's back.

"But I think the norm ought to be that the basic health care commitment by this country to people ought to be that the health care is affordable, which means lower-premium, higher-deductible plans where the subsidy and the support comes in the out-of-pocket costs and that insurance provides catastrophic coverage," Bush says in the part of the video that shows the woman's eyes closed.

Around the 35-second mark, the woman opens her eyes, looking up occasionally at the candidate and, at one point, letting out a hearty yawn.

In other photos posted by local NH1 News reporter Paul Steinhauser, the woman is shown sitting up and listening.





Bush, who has been criticized as "low energy" by Republican rival Donald Trump, is in the Granite State for two town halls as he looks to improve his standing in the polls among New Hampshire primary voters.

Campaign spokeswoman Kristy Campbell offered an explanation for the woman's fatigue, blasting an anti-Republican super PAC for picking on the woman.

Leave it to American Bridge to pick on a woman who was up at 4:00 am to work a 12 hour shift. https://t.co/EUU0fxqjcY — Kristy Campbell (@kristymcampbell) September 3, 2015





Bush later tweeted a photo standing with the woman, named Tara, with both displaying a thumbs up.

In awe of working moms like Tara who woke up at 4AM for 12 hr shift! Made me tired to hear about pic.twitter.com/28s0gt9RxE — Jeb Bush (@JebBush) September 3, 2015







