but from the perspective of the bush campaign, the timing of the bush launch had been very carefully thought out. maybe they didn t think very much about donald trump also launching at that time. but they had reason to launch him, launch jeb, on june 15th. and that s because right before june 15th, jeb bush would be returning from what the campaign expected to be a triumphant european tour. the visuals would be perfect. yet another member of the bush family confidently striding through world capitals, meeting world leaders. jeb bush had been doing that sort of diplomacy for decades, as his father s son and his brother s brother. now he would be doing it on his own terms. the idea was to imagine him as president. his campaign at that point would be that the obama administration had been terribly weak on foreign policy and the jeb bush campaign would be strong and
unfortunate for jeb bush that his campaign kickoff butted right up against donald trump s much splashier campaign kickoff. but from the perspective of the bush campaign, the timing of the bush launch had been very carefully thought out. maybe they didn t think very much about donald trump also launching at that time. but they had reason to launch him, launch jeb, on june 15th. and that s because right before june 15th, jeb bush would be returning from what the campaign expected to be a triumphant european tour. the visuals would be perfect. yet another member of the bush family confidently striding through european capitals, meeting world leaders. jeb bush had been doing that sort of diplomacy for decades, now he would be doing it on his own terms. the idea was to imagine him as president.