Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, on Monday launched his 2016 presidential campaign, making formal what has been assumed for months as he criss-crossed America raising millions of dollars for what is expected to become the most expensive White House race in history.
“We will take command of our future once again,” said the latest Republican candidate, according to his prepared remarks. “We will lift our sights again, make opportunity common again, get events in the world moving our way again.”
In language that seemed designed to counter criticism that he and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, are vestiges of the past, he said his message would be an “optimistic” one. “I am certain that we can make the decades just ahead in America the greatest time ever to be alive in this world.”