Jeb Bush's Team Signals Possible 2016 Presidential Run [View all]

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Source: CBS News

As he mulls a presidential run in 2016, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's friends and associates are urging top Republican fundraisers and strategists to avoid throwing their lot in with another candidate until Bush makes a decision.

Bush's associates aren't actively contacting potential supporters, the Journal reports, but they are answering inquiries from fundraisers and strategists who have been courted by other candidates, urging them to keep their powder dry until the former governor decides on his next step. Sally Bradshaw, one of Bush's top advisers, denied there was any "organized effort to actively recruit support for a presidential campaign." "He is seriously considering the race and will make a decision sometime after November," she told the Journal.

Bush is a favorite of the GOP's establishment wing, but tea party conservatives and activists have greeted the talk of him running with skepticism. His embrace of comprehensive immigration reform and common core national education standards put him at odds with much of the GOP base. Bush's family is also a potential impediment to a presidential bid. He'd need to grapple with the complicated legacy of his brother, former President George W. Bush, whose approval ratings have recently climbed from their nadir at the end of his presidency.


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