Jeb would pick Pitbull, Teddy Roosevelt to watch a ballgame with
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Thursday he would enjoy catching a baseball game with a rapper and a former president.
Bush, a likely 2016 GOP presidential candidate, gave his picks to a TMZ filmmaker.
“Governor, as an avid sports fan, if you could bring any historian or inventor to a baseball game with you, who would it be?” the unnamed TMZ cameraman asks in the clip.
{mosads}“Dead or alive, doesn’t matter,” he further clarified.
“I’d probably bring Teddy Roosevelt,” Bush said, choosing the 26th President.
“The reason you like baseball is you can actually have a conversation with people,” the former governor continued. “I’d love to talk to him.”
Bush then made another pick for catching a few innings.
“I might want to have Pitbull too,” he said, referencing the Miami-based rapper who has penned hits like “Timber” and “Time of Our Lives.”
Pitbull has been a somewhat frequent discussion topic for Republicans. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who has announced his 2016 White House campaign and has worked closely with Bush in the past, talks regularly of his friendship with, and fandom of, Pitbull.
Buzzfeed News reported in February that some in the GOP have lobbied the rapper to publicly support Republicans.
Bush’s remarks come as he decides whether or not to seek the Oval Office once held by his older brother, George W. Bush, and his father, George H.W. Bush.
The Bushes as a family are famous for their love of baseball. Former President George W. Bush once owned part of Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers.
Bush has not yet declared a bid for 2016. Should he run, he would join Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) in vying for the GOP’s 2016 coronation.
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