Jeb Bush’s potential campaign for president got a public blessing Friday night from his mother, Barbara Bush, in a reversal from her earlier hesitation to have another member of the family in the nation’s highest office.
The former Florida governor was speaking at a benefit for the Barbara Bush Foundation in Florida Friday when the former first lady surprised the audience by appearing on a big screen at the event, according to CNN.
The two joked about her previous remarks, and then the elder Bush told her son, “our problems are so big that it doesn’t matter what your last name is in America, if America needs you for as long as you can help.”
