Don’t be surprised if you see Nick Jonas’ name on the ballot in 2040 — that’s the year he’s planning to run for president. Yes, the youngest member of the Jonas Brothers is still too young to vote, but he already has his sights set on the highest office in the nation.
“It feels good, it feels right,” Jonas told Yeas & Nays about his time in Washington, specially referencing his trip Tuesday to the White House where he met with President Barack Obama.
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Jonas’ official merchandise Web site sells bumper stickers that read “Jonas 2040,” and he told us that he spends a lot of time reading up on the presidents.
“I’ve read a couple biographies, but I’m more into books with quotes, things that [presidents] said that are really powerful. [I] just like looking back on some amazing men,” he said.
If he does eventually decide to run for president, one of his selling points can be that he’s so popular, he makes girls faint.
While speaking at a Senate committee hearing on juvenile diabetes Wednesday morning — his first taste of governmental life — a congressional intern fainted in the back of the room midway through his testimony.
She was one intern of dozens (evidenced by their bright red badges) who sneaked into the Dirksen Building committee room to see the rock star.
Even Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., conceded the draw of the crowd was “generationally affected.”
Maybe we should give some credit then to a lucky fan who posed for a photo with Jonas afterward, and managed to get through the experience with only crying and shaking. After all, the other girl fainted just from hearing him speak.
Jonas joined fellow diabetic celebrities, boxer Sugar Ray Leonard and actress Mary Tyler Moore as part of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Children’s Congress. After the hearing, Leonard met with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
