--- title: Jeb Bush Plans to Fight Past Campaign's 'Bumpy Time' description: Jeb Bush isn't giving up on his pursuit of the 2016 Republican presidential nomination canonical: https://time.com/4095734/jeb-bush-campaign-bumpy-time/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-01T16:13:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:27.985Z article:section: Politics og:title: Jeb Bush Plans to Fight Past Campaign's 'Bumpy Time' og:description: "I'm more than prepared to fight on" og:url: https://time.com/4095734/jeb-bush-campaign-bumpy-time/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52d4d84b165b5eb6/69886f108e06013a664631c3/jeb-bush.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: U.S. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush speaks at the Growth and Opportunity Party at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jeb Bush Plans to Fight Past Campaign's 'Bumpy Time' twitter:description: "I'm more than prepared to fight on" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52d4d84b165b5eb6/69886f108e06013a664631c3/jeb-bush.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jeb Bush Plans to Fight Past Campaign's 'Bumpy Time' > Sponsored content. 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Jeb Bush speaks at the Growth and Opportunity Party at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa on Oct. 31, 2015. Brian Frank—Reuters  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Nov 1, 2015 4:13 PM UTC Jeb Bush isn’t giving up on his pursuit of the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. The former Florida governor gave an [interview](http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/jeb-bush-vows-fight-through-campaigns-bumpy-time-n455136?cw=sm%5Ftw&hootPostID=0bd3a1f95448d9187829d32daa5b1943) on NBC’s _Meet The Press_ on Sunday in which he revealed that he knows his campaign is having a troublesome period. “I have enough self-awareness to know that this is the bumpy time of a campaign,” Bush told moderator Chuck Todd. “This is the process. I totally understand it, and I’m more than prepared to fight on.” This statement comes after Bush’s [lackluster performance](http://time.com/4093701/jeb-bush-debate-campaign/) at the third GOP debate on Wednesday, during which he failed to impede the momentum of one of his key rivals, Sen. Marco Rubio. “I know that I got to get better at doing the debate,” Bush said. “I mean, when I see that I’m not doing something well then I reset and I get better.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4095734/jeb-bush-campaign-bumpy-time/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4095734/jeb-bush-campaign-bumpy-time/"},"headline":"Jeb Bush Plans to Fight Past Campaign's 'Bumpy Time'","datePublished":"2015-11-01T16:13:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:48:27.985Z","description":"\"I'm more than prepared to fight on\"","url":"https://time.com/4095734/jeb-bush-campaign-bumpy-time/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election","politics","Government","jeb bush","2016 presidential campaign"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52d4d84b165b5eb6/69886f108e06013a664631c3/jeb-bush.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52d4d84b165b5eb6/69886f108e06013a664631c3/jeb-bush.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"U.S. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush speaks at the Growth and Opportunity Party at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa","caption":"U.S. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush speaks at the Growth and Opportunity Party at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa","creditText":"Brian Frank—Reuters","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/4095734/jeb-bush-campaign-bumpy-time/","name":"Jeb Bush Plans to Fight Past Campaign's 'Bumpy Time'"}}]}] ```