Family Legacy
How Jeb Bush Was Swallowed by His Past
His candidacy was hobbled by questions about his family and a campaign that misunderstood the new political landscape. And then Nikki Haley stuck in the knife.
End of the Line: Jeb Bush Bows Out of 2016 Race
This article is for subscribers only.
At a Jeb Bush staff meeting in the conference room of a Phoenix hotel in May, a text message popped into the phone of his senior adviser and longtime confidante Sally Bradshaw that sent aides scrambling for the television: “He said it."
It had been four days since Bush and his team rehearsed how to extinguish the political firestorm he’d ignited by saying, astonishingly, that he would have agreed with then-President George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003 even if—and this was the killer—he’d known the intelligence was faulty.