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eb Bush capped his first official campaign swing through Iowa with an impassioned plea for comprehensive immigration reform, saying it will help the United States compete globally—and help Republicans defeat Democrats at the ballot box. It folded neatly into Bush's broader message framed implicitly by his argument for electability—that he, more than any other Republican candidate, has a proven record of passing conservative policy and winning large numbers of swing voters in a purple state.

Mitt Romney invited Obama political strategist David Axelrod to address a political gathering in Utah last week. The event was officially hosted by Romney and Solamere Capital, the investment firm whose executive committee he chairs, and was designed to introduce a host of GOP presidential contenders to wealthy donors. However, some notable names were apparently left off the guest list. They include announced candidates Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ben Carson, Rick Santorum, and Mike Huckabee. Jeb Bush, who was invited, did not attend because he was in Europe. But three announced candidates—Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Carly Fiorina and Lindsay Graham—and...

When Jeb Bush first ran for governor of Florida in 1994, his father had recently been booted out of the White House and the fortysomething son very much wanted to be seen as his own man. So, when it came time to design his bumper stickers, he went with a red background and “Jeb!” in chunky white letters. There was no mention of his famous surname or his party, and the jolting exclamation point was the opposite of his family’s Kennebunkport reserve. Bush ended up losing that race but keeping the brand, reusing the logo in his 1998 political comeback...

“It will be as big or bigger than anybody else in this election, Democrat or Republican,” Hispanic outreach director Jose Mallea told BuzzFeed News. A laser focus on getting Latino voters to meet and get to know Jeb Bush and his family. Jeb Bush was loose before his campaign kickoff event Monday in Miami, joking around backstage and letting loose a dirty word in Spanish, a “colloquial street Miami thing,” said Jose Mallea, Bush’s hire for connecting with Hispanic voters. “I don’t want to repeat it, it was a curse word,” he said in a phone interview. That wasn’t all,...

In a decisive break from his brother’s administration, Jeb Bush told Sean Hannity Tuesday night that he does not believe “enhanced interrogation” techniques, otherwise known as torture, is not “necessary” in the fight against terrorists around the world. “I don’t think that’s necessary,” Bush said. “Because I don’t think we need it, it’s not the law.”

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Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher, who covered the Republican campaign last time around looks at the latest Republican candidates.Jeb Bush is latest to become a US Republican Presidential hopeful, and arguably the best known. There are now eleven declared runners with perhaps three or four more ready to join the crowded field. Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher, who covered the Republican campaign last time around looks at the chances of those who want to be President, and a couple who have yet to declare. The size of the field shows the Republicans think the 2016 Presidential race is one they can win....

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)He wasn’t supposed to say it, but he couldn’t help himself. John Ellis Bush, former Governor of Florida let’er rip. He said exactly what a careful review of the transcript reveals he was supposed to avoid during his announcement for president speech at Miami Dade College. It appeared that Jeb Bush, or just “Jeb” as the signs and placards read to distinguish him from the field and other Bushes before him, was not going to mention comprehensive immigration reform. Not here, not in this speech. This speech was intended to show him for what he is, a devoted father, son...

I don’t care about what the Republicans think of Hillary. What should matter to American voters is what those who know best Hillary have said about her. Bill and Chelsea talk of Hillary in superlatives. It is the same thing with most of her staff at the State Department. President Obama, her political rival, trusted her enough to appoint her Secretary of State, a job which has added more feathers to her cap and given her impressive credentials to become the first woman President of the United States. For any Republican to describe Hillary as unworthy and out of touch...

On Monday's "The Five" on the Fox News Channel, panelist Geraldo Rivera suggested in a segment reacting to former Gov. Jeb Bush’s (R-FL) formal announcement of his candidacy for the 2016 Republican nomination that Bush may be more Latino than one of his competitors, Sen. Marco Rubio.

How likely are you to vote for former Florida Governor Jeb Bush for the Republican nomination for President of the United States? Jeb Bush the former two term governor of Florida has announced he will run for president in 2016. . He is the latest candidate to officially enter a crowded field of Republican presidential contenders. Bush has made clear he will remain committed to his core beliefs in the campaign, even if his positions on immigration and education standards are deeply unpopular among the conservative base of the party.

Thousands of U.S. troops safeguard the border of South Korea. U.S. warships patrol the South China Sea to stand witness to the territorial claims of Asian allies against China. U.S. troops move in and out of the Baltic States to signal our willingness to defend the frontiers of these tiny NATO allies. Yet nothing that happens on these borders imperils America so much as what is happening on our own bleeding border with Mexico. Over three decades, that border has been a causeway into the USA for millions of illegal immigrants who are changing the face of America — to...

Apparently Jeb Bush makes Nicole Wallace, the former communications chief for George W. Bush, swoon when he speaks Spanish. “Listen, I can admit that in English, he’s a little wonky, but in Spanish, it’s like Javier Bardem is speaking, and I’m in love. I think the whole campaign should be conducted in Spanish,” Wallace said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Tuesday. Story Continued Below The show then replayed Bush’s Spanish remarks with a split-screen on Wallace, who jokingly fanned herself while laughing. “I’m sorry; in Spanish, he’s hot,” Wallace continued. “In Spanish, he goes right to the top of the...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will be able to draw on some big-name praise if the GOP presidential nomination race ever comes down to a battle with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Bush’s son, George P. Bush, once called Cruz “the future of the Republican Party.” The comments were made in a 2012 statement Bush made in support of Cruz’s run in the Texas Republican Senate primary, long before Cruz and Bush became rivals in the 2016 Republican primaries. Cruz became the first to seek the nomination with an official announcement in March. Jeb Bush made his campaign official Monday. “[Cruz]...

Jeb Bush: "The Presidency should not be passed on from one liberal to the next"

A s Jeb Bush formally enters the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, allow me to make a humble request of the former Florida governor: Please drop out. I appreciate that my request is impertinent in the extreme. Bush is by all accounts one of the most creative, thoughtful, and disciplined minds in American politics, and if anyone has earned the right to weigh in on the future direction of the GOP, it is him. I also appreciate that my timing is awful. To drop out immediately after entering the race would seem capricious, and no one wants to...

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush has an obvious route to the GOP nomination: get the more moderate Republicans who voted for John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012 behind him this time. Bush, like McCain and Romney, is the kind of wealthy, establishment, conservative-but-not-too conservative figure the Republican Party traditionally nominates. Bush's father and brother also both won the party's nomination, but those are not great analogies to 2016. George H. Bush was the obvious heir apparent, as the sitting vice-president in 1988. During George W. Bush's 2000 primary, the GOP was not as divided as it is...

Former Gov. Jeb Bush is officially the GOP’s newest presidential candidate. In a speech this afternoon in Miami, he announced his run for the White House, describing the U.S. as a big and over-regulated government. “What the IRS, EPA and the entire bureaucracy have done with over regulation, we can undo by act of Congress and order of the president,” said Bush. The former governor of Florida pushed the benefits of small government. “When we get serious about limited government, we can pursue the great and worthy goals that America has gone too long without,” he stated. On foreign policy,...

June 15, 2015 In declaring his campaign for president, Jeb Bush opens a maverick White House bid that could reshape Republican politics for a generation and make him the third member of his family to occupy the Oval Office in three decades. Or, his candidacy could crater after colliding with the party's most conservative elements and become a cautionary tale for future candidates—dynastic or not—who'd dare to buck the GOP grassroots. "I will campaign as I would serve, going everywhere, speaking to everyone, keeping my word, facing the issues without flinching, and staying true to what I believe," Bush is...

There’s going to be an important race for the White House next year, but then again, every election for the leader of the United States and the rest of the free world is important. It must be so, because a presidential election is the only time many Americans will step into a voting booth. The 2016 campaign is well underway, with Hillary Clinton already taking shots from would-be Republican nominees. As of this writing, there are 20 declared GOPers and at least five other credible Republicans still mulling bids. Of course, Hillary is also under fire from a self-professed socialist,...