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Jeb Bush appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night and “slow-jammed the news” with the late-night host.Jeb Bush appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night and “slow-jammed the news” with the late-night host.
“Yesterday in Miami I formally announced my candidacy for president of the United States,” Bush crooned as the Roots laid down a funky backing track.“Yesterday in Miami I formally announced my candidacy for president of the United States,” Bush crooned as the Roots laid down a funky backing track.
“I thought long and hard about this decision and after careful consideration I determined that now was the right time to launch my campaign for the Republican nomination.”“I thought long and hard about this decision and after careful consideration I determined that now was the right time to launch my campaign for the Republican nomination.”
“Ohhh yeahh,” murmured Fallon. “Now that you’re in, what makes you think you got what it takes to go all the way?”“Ohhh yeahh,” murmured Fallon. “Now that you’re in, what makes you think you got what it takes to go all the way?”
“Well in my two terms as governor I cut taxes every year, passed the first state-wide school choice system, and created 1.3 million new jobs, the most in the country,” Jeb continued over the music. “Well, in my two terms as governor I cut taxes every year, passed the first state-wide school choice system, and created 1.3 million new jobs, the most in the country,” Jeb continued over the music.
“Mmm-mmm. You gots to listen to my man Jebediah,” Fallon responded. Bush – whose nickname actually stands for John Ellis Bush – grinned. “He’s got lots of experience ... down south. He came from Texas, where everything is bigger. He turned Florida from a limp peninsular to a virile member ... of the US economy.”“Mmm-mmm. You gots to listen to my man Jebediah,” Fallon responded. Bush – whose nickname actually stands for John Ellis Bush – grinned. “He’s got lots of experience ... down south. He came from Texas, where everything is bigger. He turned Florida from a limp peninsular to a virile member ... of the US economy.”
Asked by Fallon in song form where he stood on immigration, Bush said that America was “a nation of immigrants” and that “everyone should get a chance to achieve the American dream”, a message he then repeated in Spanish. Asked by Fallon in song form where he stood on immigration, Bush said that America was “a nation of immigrants” and that “everyone should get a chance to achieve the American dream”, a message he then repeated in Spanish, to applause from the crowd.
You can watch the whole segment here. Later, an interview with Bush was sandwiched in between appearances by comic Billy Crystal and rock singer Courtney Barnett.
Fallon brought up the time Bush’s mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, made a comment about having enough Bushes in the White House. Jeb recalled watching the interview.
“She did it without telling me,” he said. “Thanks, Mom. She’s coming around, thankfully.”
Asked by Fallon about how he differentiated himself from his father and sibling George W Bush, Jeb Bush said that former president George HW Bush “is the most perfect man I’ve ever met”.
Of George W, he said: “My brother, I would say, is a significantly better artist than I am.”
Bush talked about meeting his wife when he was in Mexico helping to build homes. He knew little Spanish at the time and she did not know English, but “when you’re in love you can overcome these problems pretty quickly. There’s another language,” he said.
In a sense, the appearance was a meeting between two rookies. Bush is new to the national stage, and Fallon is getting ready for his first presidential campaign as a late-night comic in an election where the two most politically savvy late-night hosts, David Letterman and Jon Stewart, will be off the scene.
Fallon asked no tough questions and seemed to hold pretty tightly to his script. Bush is the first candidate of the 2016 cycle to appear on Fallon’s show.
Fallon noted that Tonight had a lot of younger viewers, and wondered what type of message Bush would offer them. “I think we need high, sustained economic growth so they can get jobs,” he replied.
Fallon wondered what his message would be to older voters. “I think we need high, sustained economic growth,” he said. “To them, I would just say it louder.”