In a statement e-mailed to NR, Jindal campaign manager Timmy Teepell responds to Kevin’s Corner post:

This is an absurd notion that could only be put forth by someone with complete ignorance of Governor Jindal’s career, his policies, and his politics. Governor Jindal first ran for office taking on the entire political-establishment class in Louisiana. After he won, he did what everyone in the political class said was impossible — jamming through tough ethics reforms to drain the swamp, taking Louisiana from worst to first in ethics reform. Governor Jindal then did two more things that were said to be impossible by the political establishment in Louisiana: statewide school choice and privatizing the state’s charity hospital system. His entire career has been based on pushing aggressive conservative reform and ignoring the naysayers from the political establishment who said it cannot be done. To suggest that Jindal’s reform-minded push has something to do with Donald Trump or any other candidate is just pure ignorance. I realize that everyone wants to write about Donald Trump, but this is just an ill-informed cheap shot that is completely false.