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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush may have dropped out of the presidential race weeks ago — but his name is on the ballot in Florida on Tuesday anyway. And he may get a good chunk of votes in the primary — perhaps the final insult for Marco Rubio, who trails front-runner Donald Trump by 17 points in the latest poll out Monday. The votes could come on two fronts: absentee voting started weeks before Bush left the race, and the fact his name remains on the ballot Tuesday despite suspending his campaign.

He'll meet privately this week with Cruz, Rubio and Kasich ahead of the crucial Florida primary. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who ended his lackluster bid for the White House last month, will meet this week with three of the four remaining candidates in the Republican presidential race ahead of Tuesday's primary in his state. The one-time GOP presidential front-runner is to meet with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio Wednesday, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz Thursday, an aide told the New York Times. However, Bush hasn't tipped his hand as to which, if any, of his former...

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio, who has been dogged by questions over his personal finances, released portions of his tax returns Saturday, but the documents don't reveal details like which tax breaks he claimed or how much he gave to charity. -snip- Rubio’s release is aimed at increasing the pressure on GOP front-runner Donald Trump to produce his own returns, but the fact that Rubio only released partial returns may undermine his case. Meanwhile, Sen. Ted Cruz, who has also been demanding Trump produce tax documents, missed his own self-imposed deadline of Friday for providing his returns.

We cannot let Donald Trump be our nominee without releasing his Tax Returns. If there is a "bombshell" in there, it needs to come out now. If not, a Democrat bureaucrat in the IRS will leak them (just like with Mitt Campaign). A "bombshell" post nomination = President Hillary Clinton. Trump supporters and everyone else should demand this transparency from a possible president...there's too much at stake.

Since Jeb Bush's withdrawal from the presidential race on Saturday, endorsements from prominent Republicans have been piling up for Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. Just in the last day, former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah and Gov. Asa Hutchison of Arkansas have signed on. But there is one endorsement that remains elusive: Mr. Bush's. Leaving Nevada on Tuesday for a day of campaigning in Minnesota and Michigan, Mr. Rubio told reporters that he had spoken on Monday with Mr. Bush, the former governor, who was his mentor in Florida politics. He said the two planned...

In the waning days of Jeb Bush's presidential bid, his campaign became all about Marco Rubio, the one-time political understudy who went on to whip him Saturday night in South Carolina. Bush's allies and his team obsessed about the Florida senator, using him as their benchmark for success - no matter that Donald Trump was the man running at the front of the pack. And even after Bush's exit from the 2016 contest, this Florida drama - the primary within a primary - isn't over: the state's politicos now want to know if Bush will endorse the man he long...

For Establishment Republicans, elections aren't about winning or losing - it's how you play the expectations game that really counts. And Jeb Bush is taking that game to a whole new level. "I think we'll do better than fifth here," the former Florida governor - who has spent more on advertising in South Carolina than any other candidate - told CBS This Morning. "I'm in it for the long haul." Despite going into Saturday's primary with lower expectations for himself than you have for Zoolander 2, Bush is still on pace to fall short of his goal. In the latest...

As the bruising Republican primary fight moves south, the rivalry between Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio is nearing a turning point. Rubio's advisers see South Carolina as something close to make-or-break after a disastrous fifth-place showing in the New Hampshire deeply wounded his candidacy. Bush, whose campaign has found new life in recent days, is trying to notch his second consecutive victory over Rubio - something his team hopes would sideline his rival as competition in the center-right lane. Indeed, while Donald Trump and Ted Cruz duel for first, the battle between these Floridians has become a primary of its...

Two days after the New Hampshire primary, Jeb Bush's top aides are leveling a sharp accusation at Marco Rubio's campaign team. In an internal memo distributed to top aides Thursday morning, Bush campaign manager Danny Diaz argues that Rubio's staffers use "questionable tactics." -snip- Diaz does not single out any of Rubio's staffers specifically - the memo seems intended more to lay the groundwork for future accusations. But he points to a recent mailer that a pro-Rubio Super PAC released last week in New Hampshire that invoked Bush's mother, former first lady Barbara Bush. The mailer showed a doctored photograph...

Donald Trump retains a substantial lead over the rest of the Republican presidential field in the final CNN/WMUR tracking poll in New Hampshire ahead of Tuesday's primary. Trump nabs 31 percent support in the survey released Monday evening, down 2 points from the same poll conducted last week but inside its margin of error. Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) takes 17 percent in the survey, which was conducted Thursday through Monday and included the Republican debate over the weekend. Rubio, who emerged as an establishment favorite from last week's Iowa caucus, struggled in the face of a barrage of attacks from...

With the hours counting down until the New Hampshire primary, tensions between the Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush campaigns are intensifying. On Sunday afternoon, Bush campaign manager Danny Diaz convened top aides for an afternoon conference call in which he told them to expect "dirty tricks" from the Rubio campaign in the run-up to voting here, according to one source on the call. The source said Diaz, a hard-charging veteran operative, was not more specific.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, appearing weary of spending his interview time discussing rival Marco Rubio, told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace he isn't privy to the meetings of the press that have declared the Florida senator a big winner in the GOP presidential race. "Chris, there is some secret squirrel meeting that you guys get to where you decide who wins and who loses," Bush said on the program Sunday morning, a day after the latest GOP debate. "Marco Rubio came in third place in Iowa, and he was coronated. I can't control that. I'm just going to...

-snip- As with Trump's skipping the last debate, the next few days will see a lot of moving parts, so it's hard to know if Rubio's fight with Christie will hurt his chances in the state. But even if it does, his exchange was by no means the bleakest thing to happen on Google or Twitter during the night. That honor goes to Bush, for whom America had a few questions it was trying to answer.

With negative ads being lobbed at their candidate from all sides, the "super PAC" supporting Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, Conservative Solutions PAC, is broadcasting a spot calling Jeb Bush "Not the Answer." On Screen The famed (or infamous) exclamation point in the "Jeb!" logo switches to a question mark as the narrator asks, "What happened to Jeb Bush?" Stacks of televisions looking like a department store display each broadcast a different image of Mr. Bush. "He spent millions praising himself," the narrator says, "and his campaign tanked." A nail-biting image of Mr. Bush fills the screen. The words "Dishonest"...

Rick Santorum had one job to do in his appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday. He failed. The former Pennsylvania senator, who dropped his presidential bid Wednesday, told co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski he is supporting Marco Rubio's presidential campaign because the Florida senator is someone "who can work together with people." But Santorum struggled to name one accomplishment Rubio has had in the Senate. "He's been in the Senate for four years," Scarborough noted. "Can you name his top accomplishment in the Senate - actually working in the Senate doing something that tilted your decision to Marco...

After Jeb Bush finished with only 3% of the vote at the Iowa Caucus. Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, a former insurance industry executive who grew American International Group into the world's largest insurer, may bail on Jeb Bush after his mediocre performance in the Iowa Caucus. The candidate he'll likely back? Marco Rubio. The move comes even after Greenberg's CV Starr company gave $10 million to a Bush super-PAC less than four months ago, reported Bloomberg.

A Jeb Bush super PAC is hitting Marco Rubio on his messy financial history in a new TV ad running in Iowa. "Car repairs, home improvements, a family trip - it's not easy to afford. What did Marco Rubio do? He put $22,000 in personal expenses on a Republican Party credit card," the ad from Right to Rise says. "Rubio's bad judgment caused a scandal and for five years. Rubio refused to release the credit card records. Marco Rubio: skipping major votes, all over the place on immigration, bad judgment. He's just not ready to be president."

The battle between Jeb Bush's and his former protege Marco Rubio is heating up for the GOP presidential nomination, but Rubio said Tuesday that he and the ex-governor will continue to be friends. "It's a political campaign," the junior Florida senator told Fox News' "Fox and Friends" program, explaining that on a personal level their relations are "not strained at all. I continue to like Jeb very much, and as I said, we'll continue to be friends."

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Wednesday he doesn't need the kind of boots his Republican primary challenger Marco Rubio is wearing. -snip- "I've got my cowboy boots on, big Joe," Bush responded. "Do they make you three inches taller or are they just normal cowboy boots," Scarborough asked the 6'3" former governor. Some have argued that Rubio's boots were a ploy for the 5'10" senator to get a leg up. "I don't have a height issue," Bush replied.

Jeb Bush dug a bit deeper into Marco Rubio on Wednesday, taking a veiled shot at his Republican opponent's record and another dig at his height, a day after a super PAC supporting him released an ad alleging that the Florida senator has flip-flopped while alluding to the high-heeled boots he wore in New Hampshire earlier this month. -snip- "Yeah, but Jeb, do you own any platform boots that make you taller?" co-host Joe Scarborough asked, to which Bush responded, "I got my cowboy boots on, big Joe." (Bush is 6'3'' to Rubio's 5'10"). "Do they make you three inches...