ORLANDO, Florida (AP) – Jeb Bush is taking his presidential campaign to the neighborhoods and churches where Hispanics and African Americans live and worship, following his own advice to campaign where Republicans have seldom been seen in recent years.
On Friday, the former Florida governor will be one of only two Republican presidential candidates to address the National Urban League’s annual conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The other is Ben Carson, an African American and retired neurosurgeon.
Bush dismisses the efforts as a special outreach. His says his fluency in Spanish, his Mexican-immigrant wife and Hispanic children make him part of the nation’s Latino community.
Bush has also met twice already with groups of pastors that have included African-American clergy in early-voting South Carolina.