Bush ‘Thinks’ It’s Possible to Stay Friends With Rubio
The campaign is already straining their friendship.
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio and former Governor Jeb Bush keep in regular contact back home in Florida. The two Republicans could be presidential rivals in 2016.
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MANCHESTER, New Hampshire—Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush gave a chilly response to a question on Friday asking his thoughts about potentially competing for the Republican presidential nomination against U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, who lives just a couple miles away in Miami.
"He's a good, close friend, and it is what it is," Bush told reporters after meeting voters at St. Anselm College's New Hampshire Institute of Politics. "One of my objectives would be to maintain the friendships I have with the people that may be aspiring to the same thing. I think it's possible."