Jeb Brings Mom to Rally, Cracks Jokes: We Were Glad She Never Had a ‘Child Abuse Hotline’

Jeb Brings Mom to Rally, Cracks Jokes: We Were Glad She Never Had a ‘Child Abuse Hotline’

Jeb Bush brought his mother Barbara Bush to a campaign rally in New Hampshire tonight and made things just a teensy bit awkward.

Bush said he’s heard from plenty of people about how much they love his mother, before saying, “She’s not as great as everybody thinks she is. I can tell you that one.”

“I jokingly say,” he quipped, “that when we were growing up in Midland and Houston that mom was fortunate not to have a child abuse hotline available, because the discipline of learning right and wrong was her doing.”


Bush has brought his mother into the campaign a bit more and, of course, Donald Trump razzed him about it.

Watch above, via C-SPAN.

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