Florida Governor Jeb Bush will reportedly skip an important forum in Iowa, which hosts the first-in-the-nation presidential nominating caucuses and where voters are much more conservative than Bush on illegal immigration. Citing a “scheduling conflict,” Bush reportedly declined an invitation
In an appearance on NBC’s “Today” on Thursday, “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd laid out what he foresees as the make-up of the 2015 political landscape, much of which has to do with the 2016 presidential contest. According to
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) has resigned from all his corporate and nonprofit board memberships, including chairmanship of the education foundation he founded–more evidence that he is considering a 2016 presidential bid.
Jeb Bush is beginning 2015 unemployed.
The former Florida governor has resigned from each of his corporate and nonprofit board memberships. He also left his own education foundation. An aide to the Republican emailed the resignation news to The Washington Post late Wednesday.
Nationally syndicated conservative radio host Mark Levin, a former official in President Ronald Reagan’s administration, is calling on former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to answer whether he stands with House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Majority Whip Steve Scalise in the wake of a blistering Scalise scandal concerning his longtime ties to a top aide to former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.
His track record of support squishy candidates, or holding his support for more conservative ones, leads many to believe that he himself is a Republican establishment squish whose every move is calculated and based on political expediency. The truth is, Jeb is just a shrewd politician. He is conservative, he is GOP establishment, and he is all about Jeb.
In yet another move telegraphing his intention to run for the 2016 Republican nomination, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has resigned from the corporate board of “forest resources and real estate company Rayonier Inc. as of Dec. 31.”
A plurality of Republicans are less likely to support former Florida Governor Jeb Bush for believing that illegal immigration is an “act of love.” A recent CNN/ORC survey of mostly soft and moderate Republicans found that even 42% of those respondents
The Wall Street Journal has reviewed several emails from then Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s tenure in office, though it is as yet hard to characterize it as a thorough review yielding an objective view of his overall time in office.
A new CNN/ORC poll finds former Florida Governor Jeb Bush with a 10-point lead over New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and a 16-point advantage over Dr. Ben Carson among CNN’s sample of 453 individuals who it dubbed Republicans.
George Will understands why conservatives are revolted by the Common Core standards. Jeb Bush either does not understand or, perhaps worse, does not care. Either way, Bush owns his insistence upon the highly controversial education initiative, a position that will likely cost him with most conservatives in a presidential bid, and should also matter to all Republicans.
Jeb Bush is beginning the process of disentangling himself from financial relationships that could cause him difficulties in a 2016 presidential bid.
USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page declared that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will run for president in 2016 and that such a move is “not really good news for Jeb Bush” on Tuesday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. “So,
When you have major donors who have been given ambassadorships, in some cases in two previous Bush presidencies, that type of cronyism may make it hard for other 2016 GOP hopefuls to raise the money they’ll need to compete in
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said if former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) runs for president in 2016 that will not have any effect on his decision to run. When host Chuck Todd asked the junior Florida
Columnist David Brooks argued that Jeb Bush is “the favorite” in the 2016 presidential race and that “the party is coming back…to about where Jeb Bush is” on Friday’s “PBS Newshour.” Brooks said of Bush “I think he’s the favorite,
NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd argued that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) would lose the competition for donors with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R) if the two both decide to run for president in 2016 in
After announcing that he is “actively considering” running for president, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is meeting with Republican donors in Illinois on Friday. According to a Chicago Sun-Times report, Bush will “meet with major Illinois GOP donors and fundraisers,”
In February of 2013, Jeb Bush told several hundred people at a Catholic Florida university that, were he to become president, he would strive to be like Lyndon Baines Johnson. As the Miami Herald reported, while speaking at St. Leo
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush will reportedly quit his position at Barclays at the end of the year. The Financial Times report comes days after Bush announced that he is “actively exploring” a potential presidential run. Before Bush’s announcement that
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush believes he can “persuade” conservatives to support comprehensive amnesty legislation during a potential 2016 presidential campaign. In the second part of his interview with a local Florida television station this week, Bush was asked about
The Wall Street Journal editorial board took a turn at Jonathan Gruber’s strategy in getting Obamacare passed. The board advised Jeb Bush that if he wants to win the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, he should simply change the “polarizing” name of the
The pro-amnesty and open borders Wall Street Journal wants former Florida Governor Jeb Bush to not back down on Common Core and amnesty, the two issues that may represent the greatest divide between the bipartisan political class and Main Street.
Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin argued that tapping into “middle class angst” would be the key to winning the Republican nomination for president in 2016 and that Jeb Bush would lose if he ran as an “elitist” on Wednesday’s “Laura Ingraham
Just hours after he announced his plan “actively explore” a 2016 presidential run on Monday, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said he would have “no problems” pushing for comprehensive immigration reform in a GOP primary. “We’ve got to protect the
