Home from Europe With No Gaffes: Jeb Bush Heads to Miami and Campaign Launch

Presidential hopeful makes news by not making it overseas.

Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida, second left, lays a wreath with his wife Columba Bush, second right, and members of Polish American Freedom Foundation in Pilsudski Square in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, June 11, 2015. Jeb Bush is on a five-day European tour, followed by a presidential announcement in Miami.
Photographer: Piotr Malecki/Bloomberg

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By Michael C. Bender

June 13, 2015 at 3:22 PM UTC

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At the same latitude as Homer, Alaska, Tallinn, the Estonian capital where Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush's weeklong foreign trip concluded Saturday, barely sees a sunset in summer. Now, the former Florida governor heads straight to Miami, and the dawning of his official presidential campaign on Monday.

Bush will arrive in the southernmost metropolitan area of the continental U.S. with momentum from a largely successful—and slightly unusual—week in Europe.