--- title: Jeb Bush Wants to Debate Donald Trump By Himself description: "Any time, any place." canonical: https://time.com/4162396/jeb-bush-donald-trump-debate/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-28T19:27:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:39:43.658Z article:section: Politics og:title: Jeb Bush Wants to Debate Donald Trump By Himself og:description: "Any time, any place." og:url: https://time.com/4162396/jeb-bush-donald-trump-debate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6754dbc4877f4183/698876fce20a87fe7ca8ed3c/gettyimages-502691554.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: GettyImages-502691554 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jeb Bush Wants to Debate Donald Trump By Himself twitter:description: "Any time, any place." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6754dbc4877f4183/698876fce20a87fe7ca8ed3c/gettyimages-502691554.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jeb Bush Wants to Debate Donald Trump By Himself by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Dec 28, 2015 7:27 PM UTC  Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush holds a meet and greet at Chico's Restaurant on December 28, 2015 in Hialeah, Florida. Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush holds a meet and greet at Chico's Restaurant on December 28, 2015 in Hialeah, Florida.Johnny Louis—2015\_Johnny Louis/JLNphotography.com by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Dec 28, 2015 7:27 PM UTC Jeb Bush has a proposal: [A one-on-one debate with Donald Trump.](http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/264328-bush-challenges-trump-to-one-on-one-debate) The former Florida governor challenged the current Republican frontrunner at a campaign event in Florida Monday. “Donald, I’ll take you on one-on-one in a debate, any time, any place,” Bush told the crowd at the Forum Club in Palm Beach. “You name it and I’ll do it.” Bush, polling at 4% last week, is [trailing far behind Trump](http://time.com/4158477/ted-cruz-donald-trump-poll-republican-race/), who leads the field at 28% in the same Quinnipiac University poll. Bush is likely looking take back some of his momentum before the Feb. 1 Iowa Caucus. The two have repeatedly traded jabs, setting up for a main event fight that could be entertaining—as neither campaign has held any punches. Trump called Bush “low energy,” while Bush went as far as calling the billionaire a [“jerk”](http://time.com/4156094/jeb-bush-donald-trump-jerk/) earlier in December. “Just one other thing — I gotta get this off my chest — Donald Trump is a jerk,” said Bush on Dec. 19 at a New Hampshire rally. “You cannot insult your way to the presidency. You can’t disparage women, Hispanics, disabled people. Who is he kidding?” The next Republican presidential debate is on Jan. 14 in Charleston, South Carolina. **Read More:** [_Jeb Bush’s Daring Challenge to the Donald Trump Celebrity Circus_](http://time.com/4144366/jeb-bush-donald-trump-republican/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4162396/jeb-bush-donald-trump-debate/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4162396/jeb-bush-donald-trump-debate/"},"headline":"Jeb Bush Wants to Debate Donald Trump By Himself","datePublished":"2015-12-28T19:27:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:39:43.658Z","description":"\"Any time, any place.\"","url":"https://time.com/4162396/jeb-bush-donald-trump-debate/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","jeb bush","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6754dbc4877f4183/698876fce20a87fe7ca8ed3c/gettyimages-502691554.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6754dbc4877f4183/698876fce20a87fe7ca8ed3c/gettyimages-502691554.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"GettyImages-502691554","caption":"Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush holds a meet and greet at Chico's Restaurant on December 28, 2015 in Hialeah, Florida.","creditText":"Johnny Louis—2015_Johnny Louis/JLNphotography.com","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4162396/jeb-bush-donald-trump-debate/","name":"Jeb Bush Wants to Debate Donald Trump By Himself"}}]}] ```