Scott Walker The Wisconsin governor is building his campaign around what many conservatives see as his signature accomplishment: taking on unions. In his 2014 memoir, Unintimidated: A Governor’s Story and A Nation’s Challenge, Walker recounts his successful battle to strip organized labor of collective bargaining rights. It was this victory that catapulted

©2015 Bloomberg News NQRZHM6JTSEC (Bloomberg Politics) — Jeb Bush made $29 million in the first seven years after he left public office, dramatically increasing his wealth during a recession, a financial crisis and the Obama presidency he has criticized. Bush’s tax returns, released Tuesday, show how the former Florida governor

©2015 Bloomberg View NN6A8W6JTSE9 (Bloomberg View) — American elections are being outsourced. The Associated Press and National Journal have each reported that former Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s nascent presidential campaign is about to do something as logical and inevitable as it is alarming: entrust the thrust and parry of the campaign to a

©2015 Bloomberg News NMXHBB6S972I (Bloomberg Politics) — CONCORD, New Hampshire—Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush took aim at current President Barack Obama on Thursday, saying the two-term Democrat has put his own legacy ahead of securing strong international pacts on behalf of the country. “This president wants to get deals for his

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NKAA9X6KLVR8 (Bloomberg Politics) — Sandwiched between two defining conservative events—CPAC and the Iowa Ag Summit—is a less publicized but crucial confab for Republican presidential hopefuls seeking support from well-heeled donors. Held at the remote, luxury Sea Island resort in Georgia, the 2015 American Enterprise Institute World Forum will bring together

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NJZXZJ6KLVRD (Bloomberg Politics) — At 11:45 a.m. on Valentine’s Day, Saturday, Senator Rand Paul tweeted: https://twitter.com/SenRandPaul/status/advertised, the link took people to a Pinterest page purporting to belong to Hillary Clinton. Instead, it had been put together by Paul’s camp. There was a “Power Couple” board, with shots of the Clintonian Mr. &

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NJM0J86S972E (Bloomberg View) — If you play the odds, the Republican presidential nomination will go to one of these final four: Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul or Scott Walker. Last April, I calculated the odds for each like this: former Florida Governor Jeb Bush at 4-to-1; Wisconsin