Jeb Bush presidential campaign, 2016 facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Jeb 2016, Inc. |
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| Campaign | U.S. presidential election, 2016 |
| Candidate | Jeb Bush Governor of Florida (1999-2007) |
| Affiliation | Republican Party |
| Status | Announced: June 15, 2015 Suspended: February 20, 2016 |
| Headquarters | P.O. Box 440669 Tampa, Florida |
| Key people | Danny Diaz (campaign manager) David Kochel (chief strategist) Jon Downs (media strategist) Tim Miller (communications director) |
| Receipts | US$11,429,897 (2015-06-30) US$103,000,000 (approx.) (Right to Rise PAC) |
| Slogan | #AllInForJeb |
| Chant | Jeb! |
The 2016 presidential campaign of John Ellis "Jeb" Bush, the 43rd Governor of Florida, was formally launched on June 15, 2015, coming six months after announcing the formal exploration of a candidacy for the 2016 Republican nomination for the President of the United States on December 16, 2014, and the formation of his Right to Rise PAC. It is headquartered in Miami, Florida. He suspended his campaign on February 20, 2016.
Background
There had been speculation that Bush would make a run for President since the end of the 2012 election. Speculation was fueled when Bush announced he would be "actively exploring" a run for President on December 16, 2014 and resigned from several corporate boards.
On June 4, the same day of Governor Rick Perry's formal campaign announcement, an anonymous Bush staffer leaked that Bush would formally announce his candidacy on June 15. Bush made a trip to Germany, Poland, and Estonia before returning to begin his campaign. On June 15, 2015, Bush formally announced his candidacy at Miami Dade College's Kendall Campus, in Miami, Florida.
Bush embarked on a tour following his June 15 announcement, with stops in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada. On July 9, 2015, at a campaign fund-raising conference in the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, Bush announced that super PACs which support his candidacy, mainly Right to Rise, had received a total of $103 million during the previous six months. The campaign itself had received $11.4 million, $700,000 a day, during its first two weeks.
Images for kids
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Governor Jeb Bush (R) with his father and brother, former President George H. W. Bush (L) and then-President George W. Bush (C) in 2006
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Jeb Bush speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference in March 2015.
