Jeb Bush reveals mom Barbara Bush to campaign with him again
Jeb Bush became the leaker-in-chief of his own campaign on Tuesday, accidentally revealing during a press conference that his mother Barbara Bush would be coming out on to the campaign trail with him yet again -- this time in South Carolina.
"Yeah, my mom's coming," Bush told reporters on Tuesday. "Well, she was in New Hampshire. This is a little easier trip for her, this kind of weather, she'll be back."
"That's not announced yet?" Bush later sheepishly asked, turning to his spokeswoman Kristy Campbell. "I blew it. Always here to help," he added.
Campbell confirmed that Barbara Bush will be back on the trail on Thursday night. She made her debut on Jeb Bush's campaign in Derry, New Hampshire before the primary earlier in February -- and will be staying through the South Carolina GOP primary on Saturday.
Bush has been known to make unplanned disclosures before: at a retail stop at Palmer's Deli and Marker in Des Moines leading up to the Iowa caucuses, a reporter overheard Bush let the secret out that his mother would be campaigning with him in New Hampshire.
"I was just talking to her yesterday, she's coming to New Hampshire to campaign with me," Bush excitedly told a woman who had asked about the Former First Lady.
In December, CNN spotted Bush celebrating after a town hall after Beverly Bruce, a coveted New Hampshire endorsement, went up to Bush for a hug and whispered something in his ear. "Yeah!," Bush yelled in front of members of the press. "Beverly Bruce just said she was going to support me after the holidays."