Marc Anthony, left, and Pitbull perform at the 39th Annual American Music Awards. Jeb Bush would like to bring Pitbull to a baseball game, maybe

In the all-important Pitbull presidential primary, Jeb Bush apparently is looking to make a move.

Asked by TMZ if he could take anyone — dead or alive — to a baseball game, the former Florida governor picked two men: a former Republican president and Mr. Worldwide.


“I’d bring Teddy Roosevelt because I’d love to talk to him about his …” said Bush before trailing off while signing autographs Thursday in downtown Washington.

“The reason you like baseball is that you can have a conversation with people,” Bush said. “Might want to have Pitbull, too.”

One of Bush’s likely opponents, Sen. Marco Rubio, is said to be tight with the 34-year-old, Miami-born rapper. Rubio, who, according to BuzzFeed’s McKay Coppins, is “on a first-name basis” with Pitbull and has described him as a “ friend” in interviews.

In November 2012, Rubio even tweeted some unsolicited advice for his pal:

@Pitbull makes party music not message music.Always been place for that in #HipHop.As he gets older he will have more 2 say about life. — Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 19, 2012

“His songs are all party songs,” Rubio elaborated in a December 2012 interview with GQ, when asked whether Pitbull’s raps were “too cheesy.”

“There’s no message for him, compared to like an Eminem,” Rubio said. “But look, there’s always been a role for that in American music. There’s always been a party person, but he’s a young guy. You know, maybe as he gets older, he’ll reflect in his music more as time goes on. I mean, he’s not Tupac. He’s not gonna be writing poetry.”

For his part, Pitbull, whose real name is Armando Pérez, has not endorsed a candidate.

“I’m not here to be part of any political party,” Pitbull said in a statement to BuzzFeed in February. “I’m here to bring political parties to my party because they can’t, they won’t, they never will, stop the Pitbull party, Dale!”