--- 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: 2026-02-22T12:15:07.245Z 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jeb Bush Plans to Fight Past Campaign's 'Bumpy Time'  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Nov 1, 2015 4:13 PM UTC  Jeb Bush speaks at the Growth and Opportunity Party at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa on Oct. 31, 2015. 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":"2026-02-22T12:15:07.245Z","description":"\"I'm more than prepared to fight on\"","url":"https://time.com/4095734/jeb-bush-campaign-bumpy-time/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","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'"}}]}] ```