Bush sounded an optimistic note, promoting himself as the candidate of “Today and Tomorrow,” his campaign’s new slogan. But the baggage of his brother and father seemed to weigh on him. “Our country is on a very bad course,” he said. “The question for me is: What am I going to do about it? And I have decided. I am a candidate for president of the United States.” Amid cheers and off-script, he exhaled with an audible “whoo” that communicated grim resignation, a Here we go.
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Jeb Bush Enters 2016 Race, Keeping National Security at a Distance
John Ellis Bush, better known as Jeb, entered the 2016 presidential race as expected on Monday in Miami, Florida, where he forged his own political career as a successful businessman and then two-time governor of the key battleground state. Like Hillary Clinton two days before him, Bush stressed his personal accomplishments rather than the family dynasty that launched him into the political spotlight, and notably avoided focusing on foreign policy, a fraught subject for the brother and son of two war-time presidents.