The former two-term Florida governor finally launches his presidential campaign on Monday. The announcement at Miami Dade College, smack in the heart of Florida's Cuban American community, comes after a six month-long — and lucrative — flirtation with voters and donors. Bush has raised tens of millions "for the super PAC that will operate independently of his campaign operation and attack his opponents," writes the Washington Post. If all that money gets 62-year-old Jeb the GOP nomination and the White House, says the Post, he would make history as the third member of his family to serve as U.S. president.
Not so fast, argues Nate Cohn, "Upshot" columnist for The New York Times: "It was easy to see Jeb Bush's path to the Republican nomination when he announced the formation of his super PAC in December," writes Cohn. "He ... seemed well positioned to appeal to the coalition of party elites and blue-state voters that has allowed center-right establishment candidates to win the party’s last two contests." The striking surprise, however, is that Jeb officially enters the contest "bearing many of the costs of the center-right approach without seeming to enjoy many of the benefits."
