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Florida's quote of the day

| 5/19/2014

"He's got a very, very high problem to overcome: He's got a record of success."

-- Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, speaking of Jeb Bush

As presidential talk steadily grows around him, a fundamental question lingers over Jeb Bush: Does he, as probable rival Chris Christie recently said, have the "fire in the belly to do this?"

Two appearances last week in starkly different settings — a black-tie dinner Monday in Manhattan and a commencement address Saturday at the Christian college that bears this town's name — suggest that the former Florida governor is summoning the energy and exposing his strengths and weaknesses for a 2016 campaign.

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