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It all started yesterday while poring over 33 years of Jeb Bush’s tax returns. In a demonstration of transparency, Bush, the former Florida governor and Republican presidential hopeful, tweeted out his e-mail address, inviting those curious about his finances to “email me directly.” (As governor, Bush encouraged Floridians to e-mail jeb@jeb.org. Many got a personal response). Bush campaign aides said jeb@jeb2016.com was meant for use by voters eager to hear from the candidate himself, but this reporter decided to give it a shot. So, I drafted an email, knowing that it might drop into the dustbin of cyberspace. Rather than...

Businessman Donald Trump continued his verbal attack against illegal immigrants on Wednesday, in an exclusive interview set to air at 10 p.m. on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon. He has stirred up controversy in recent days for claiming "rapists" and "killers" are migrating over the United States' southern border. Univision and NBC Universal have cut ties with the businessman, refusing to air the "Miss Universe" pageant he partially owns as a result, and Macy's announced Wednesday it was also discontinuing his clothing line. On Wednesday, Trump, who is a Republican presidential candidate, told Lemon he was pulling his facts from...

Jeb Bush’s son, George P. Bush, has joined his dad in an arduous effort: Trying to get the Latino vote. Fox News Latino reports that Bush, the Texas land commissioner, spoke at a Mexican restaurant in Nevada on Wednesday, where he told a crowd of around 40 people why the Latino vote is of grave importance. “The Hispanic agenda is the American agenda, it’s an aspirational community that I happen to be a part of,” Bush, whose mother is a Mexican immigrant, said. “We want better schools, a brighter economic tomorrow, a strong national defense, it’s a patriotic community.”

Fund-raising is a family affair for former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida. But not the whole family. Facing a Tuesday deadline to raise cash for the first quarter, Mr. Bush’s campaign has enlisted his wife, son and father to solicit donations from supporters in the last two days. There has been no such pitch, however, from the 43rd president, who is his brother. “It’s not the same as when I ran for office, now a single email can raise millions, and every fund-raising deadline is scrutinized,” his father, the first President Bush, wrote in an email. “That’s why Jeb needs...

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has said that he supports Puerto Rico filing for bankruptcy in the face of the massive debt the Caribbean island is facing. When Bush visited Puerto Rico, which is a U.S. territory, on a campaign stop in April, he told a crowd that the public agencies in Puerto Rico should be able to seek bankruptcy under Chapter 9, according to the Puerto Rico Report.

As governor of Florida, Jeb Bush used the Spanish word “presidente” instead of the English word – President – while communicating with one of his aides to describe Abe Lincoln, according to decade-old emails reported by the Washington Post. A day before South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley decided to remove the confederate flag from the state capitol grounds following the racially motivated shooting in a Charleston church, a Washington Post blog reported about how GOP presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush handled the confederate flag debate while he was governor of the Sunshine state. In his report, the...

He may be the frontrunner on paper, but his campaign has fallen apart. In his official launch, he tried to turn the tide. Things ought to be pretty good for Jeb Bush right now. The former Florida governor leads by a narrow margin in national polls for the Republican presidential nomination, and by a wider margin in New Hampshire. He is overwhelmingly dominant in fundraising. And he does not lack for connections to the Republican donors, officials, and grandees collectively known as "the Establishment." Yet before Bush's campaign could even officially begin on Monday, it seemed to be falling apart....

George P. Bush, the Texas Agriculture Commissioner and son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, once called Senator Ted Cruz “the future of the Republican Party” and compared Cruz’s effect on the party to the “Great Reformation.” “Ted is the future of the Republican Party,” Bush said in a statement in support for Cruz during the 2012 Texas Republican Senate primary. Cruz, an upstart conservative and grassroots candidate, ultimately came from behind in that race to upset Texas lieutenant governor David Dewhurst, the establishment favorite. “He is a proven conservative, and his personal story embodies the American Dream. Like Marco...

Jeb Bush’s entry into the 2016 GOP primary race hands the liberal media an establishment candidate that they enjoy using as a tool to whack conservatives. Bush’s stances on immigration, Common Core and other issues have drawn praise from the likes of Chris Matthews who cooed: “He wants to run on his own terms. He’s not going to become a wacko bird. He’s not going to join the clown car...he believes in Common Core education. He believes in immigration.” The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne hopefully cheered Bush could become a “change agent in the Republican Party” on immigration because for...

Jeb Bush is poised to make his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination official today. He will announce his intentions at Miami Dade College in a speech where, at least once, he is going to assure his listeners that he is a good conservative and can beat Hillary Clinton in the general election. The Bush fundraising steamroller is impressive. By the end of this month, his super-PAC, Right to Rise, will have raised close to $100 million, far and away the most of any declared or undeclared candidate. But he is currently the choice of only about 12% of the...

Jeb Bush makes a play for minority and women voters in a video leading up to his campaign announcement Monday. Themes of equality and helping the vulnerable set the tone in the 3:13 video, which features black and Hispanic Floridians talking about how, as governor, Bush guided policies helping domestic violence victims and the developmentally disabled.

“We’ve had enough Bushes,” said Barbara Bush two years ago, dismissing the idea of her son Jeb running for President. Her husband and another son both already held the highest office in the world. Though the media is staging 2016 as the ultimate showdown between political dynasties — Jeb Bush vs. Hillary Clinton — it looks like the culture shares Barbara’s lack of enthusiasm for either of these “establishment” politicians. In a recent poll taken by Quinnipiac University, Jeb only takes the lead in his home state of Florida, dropping down around 10 percent support in other key swing states...

As part of announcing his 2016 presidential candidacy, Jeb Bush released a video entitled "Making a Difference." The video spotlights how Bush's work as governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007 affected four people: a low-income student, a low-skilled worker, a mother whose child is disabled and a woman who was the victim of domestic violence. "My core beliefs start with the premise that the most vulnerable in our society should be in the front of the line, not the back," Bush says in the video. "The barriers right now on people rising up is the great challenge of our...

Jeb Bush 2016 Presidential Candidate: Spanish-Language Ad Highlights Bush Immigration, Minimum Wage Stance in Latino Battleground States Coinciding with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's official presidential campaign announcement, a new advertisement has been released highlighting his stance on issues critical to the Latino community. People for the American Way (PFAW), a left-leaning nonprofit organization, released a 30-second advertisement stating that Bush is "out of touch with [the Latino] community." The Spanish-language advertisement will air four states with notably increasing Latino populations: Colorado, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. "Our media program focuses on battleground states where Latinos can and will be...

If you’re running to become president of the United States, it’s pretty important to deliver a campaign that’s filled with authority, power and conviction. But try telling that to Jeb Bush, after the Republican hopeful unveiled this logo for his campaign – complete with a weirdly placed exclamation mark. It certainly doesn’t look like the hallmark of a man who’s trying to get into the Oval Office, but instead comes across like some kind of short-lived domestic sitcom from the 1980s. Apparently, he’s used the logo for all his political activities since 1994, but that doesn’t make it any less...

After months of unlimited fundraising and making speeches across the country like a guy running for president, Jeb Bush is reportedly making his candidacy official from a locale in Miami that represents his home city’s Latino diaspora. On Monday afternoon, Bush will make his announcement from the Kendall campus of Miami Dade College, a school that boasts having the largest enrollment of minority students, mostly Latinos, than any other institution of higher learning in the U.S. Friends and supporters say selecting Miami Dade enhances the former Florida governor’s positions on two issues, education and immigration, in which he veers away...

There are three Republican candidates who ran Spanish-language ads when they announced their presidential intentions — but only one was an Anglo. Jeb Bush not only speaks fluent Spanish, he has made his home by completely embracing Latino culture and putting down roots in South Florida. His former aide, Ana Navarro tells a little story that shows just how much he's adopted the culture — one day she suggested something to Bush that he rejected because it was too expensive and then, she said, he touched his elbow with his hand. "That's a very Hispanic gesture for meaning 'because I'm...

Jeb Bush plans to declare his bid for the presidency Monday in Miami, nearly 27 years after his father was elected president. But former Florida Gov. Bush, writes the New York Times, will enter a presidential contest unlike any faced by his father George or his brother George W. Bush. And as the third member of his family to seek the nation’s highest office, Jeb Bush brings to the race a last name that both evokes the nobility of public service and a deep distrust of political entitlement, the Times writes. Bush’s campaign is using a spare logo that excludes...

Jeb Bush, the son and brother of former presidents, will announce his own White House bid Monday afternoon here, while trying to stress his independence — a sentiment summed up by his campaign logo, which simply reads, "Jeb!" -snip- Bush chose Miami-Dade College's Kendall campus for his announcement in part to display his association with the city's Hispanic population. He moved to Miami in 1981 with his Mexican-born wife, Columba, and quickly became a player in the fast-growing real estate business and local politics, helping convert Cubans to the Republican Party.

With the Senate tied in knots over a House-passed bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security while simultaneously blocking President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, a nearly two-year-old video was released that shows leading GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush explicitly contradicting a key Republican position on providing illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. First reported by CNN, the video shows Bush at an appearance at an event sponsored by the Hispanic Leadership Network in April 2013. Bush was asked about his position on a Senate immigration reform bill and, specifically, on offering citizenship to people brought to the...