Working to reinvigorate his sagging presidential campaign, Jeb Bush journeyed up the I-4 corridor Monday with stops in Tampa, Winter Park and Jacksonville.
Bush spoke at the Tampa Garden Club on Monday morning and the Conductive Education Center in Winter Park. At both locations, he took shots at President Barack Obama, Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham-Clinton and Republican rivals Donald Trump and Marco Rubio.
Of Trump, Bush said he won't assume the role of "angry agitator" and referenced him by saying, "And you can't just tell Congress ... 'You're Fired' ... and go to a commercial break."
Bush alluded to 44-year-old Rubio when he said, "The challenges we face as a nation are too great to roll the dice on another presidential experiment. To trust the rhetoric of reform over a record of reform."
The former Florida governor also tried out his new slogan: "Jeb can fix it."
Bush is not only trailing in the national polls, but he is not doing well in his home state. According to a new poll, he is sagging behind Trump, Rubio and Dr. Ben Carson, and running about even with Ted Cruz.
But the candidate, who is currently polling below 10 percent, says do not count him out yet.
“Yeah there are big personalities out there on the stage," Bush said in Winter Park. "But no one is going to be lifted out of poverty and no one is going to get a pay increase just by talking down our country. We need tangible solutions to these big challenges that we face.”