MIAMI – GOP presidential hopeful Jeb Bush made a stop at a Miami school Tuesday as part of his campaign trail.
The former Florida governor toured classes at Progresiva Presbyterian School in Little Havana before holding a town hall meeting with high school students.
It's there that he talked about education and how, as governor, he fought to raise the graduation rate in the Sunshine State.
"He was for school choice and for school voucher and I'm sure he still is," said Sean Foreman, a political science professor at Barry University.
The school also has ties to the Cuban exile community, which Foreman said is no coincidence
"In some ways we're watching the Miami primary work out where Jeb and Marco (Rubio) are fighting for support in the Cuban exile community," Foreman said.
Bush took questions from students on the economy, national debt, gun control, high costs of college and immigration.
Bush said he believes the U.S. needs to secure the border. He said coming to America legally should be easier than illegally, which can create public health and security challenges.
One of the students asked a question about immigration in Spanish. Bush answered the question in Spanish.
"Part of the Trump phenomena and this concern about immigration, when you start hearing Jeb Bush speaking Spanish. It may backfire and they may use it against him," Foreman said.
"I don't think we're going to round up 11 million people and put them in camps to deport them, breaking up families. I'm for a rational approach to immigration," Bush said to a gaggle of reporters after the event.
Bush was clearly trying to set himself apart from what some say are Trump's irrational and unreal plans to fix the immigration problems in America.
"It's time for bush to take off the gloves and really start to hit Trump because it appears that's his main competitor to winning this nomination," Foreman said.
On Tuesday, the Bush campaign released an attack ad on Trump which questioned his conservative record.
In an interview on Meet the Press with the late Tim Russert, Trump said he is pro-choice on the issue of abortion.
In another soundbite, Trump called Hillary Clinton a great woman.
"This is not a guy who is a conservative. Using his own words is not a mischaracterization. They came out of his own mouth," Bush said in post event press conference.
In a Tuesday's Public Policy Polling, Trump came out in first place with 29 percent. Bush followed with Ben Carson in third place with nine percent.
His next stop is New Hampshire on Thursday.
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