The campaign’s logo has just his first name “Jeb” in bold red letters. With the promise of creating jobs and a safer United States, the Republican ex-governor is trying to become the family’s third president.
The fact that the surname Bush was removed from the campaign’s logo and bumper sticker can be interpreted as the former Florida governor not wanting to be associated with his father, George H.W. Bush, or with the policies of his brother, George W. Bush.
Instead, he wants to emphasize his leadership. According to documents leaked to the U.S. media from the campaign, he plans to promise 19 million new jobs and strengthen America’s position in a troubled time.
Jeb took six months to ponder whether he would run for the Republican primary. Now the 62-year-old Bush is ready. He announced his candidacy at Miami Dade College in Miami on Monday evening (Swedish time) and promised to follow his heart.
“I will take nothing and no one for granted,” Bush said to a group of supporters who gathered there.
“I will run with heart and I will run to win,” he said, according to the news media.
Bush has made clear he will stick to his core issues in the upcoming campaign, although his approaches to immigration and education are very unpopular among the Republican Party’s grassroots.
“I am going to be who I am. I respect people who may not agree with me, but I am not going to change my views because today someone has a view that’s different. I think candidates have a duty to persuade,” he said over the weekend, returning from his trip to Europe.
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