Jeb: I’m ‘Excited’ My Brother Will Be Campaigning for Me in S.C.

GEIST: “I want to ask you about news we got yesterday that your brother, President George W. Bush had cut an ad for The Right to Rise, the Super PAC that supports you, that will be airing in South Carolina. That tells us first of all no matter how you do in New Hampshire you will move on to South Carolina. The second question, though, is why did it take so long for you to bring your brother into the campaign, something a lot of people suggested you do earlier?”
BUSH: “Well, the intention was always to do it nearing the end, and I didn’t know that the ad was going on because we can’t coordinate. It’s the weirdest thing in the world. I’m watching TV and I see this ad. I had no knowledge that it was going up. But he’s going to campaign for me in South Carolina. I’m excited about that. This is — the strategy is to not abandon who I am because I’m proud to be a Bush. It is who I am but also that I need to share my life experience, my leadership skills, my ideas to lift people out of poverty, my ideas to increase security for our country and to allow the middle-class to get a pay raise for the first time in a decade. So I think it’s the right balance.”