Jeb Bush awkwardly tells a first-time voter: 'I want to be your first'

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published 2 February 2016

Jeb Bush's awkward phrasing just made a plea for a vote sound like, well, a plea for something else. When a college student told the former Florida governor that the 2016 election would be his first time voting, Bush replied, "I want to be your first."

In Bush's defense, he's not the first politician who has made this insinuation. Back in 2012, Girls star Lena Dunham made an ad for President Obama describing him as the perfect guy for her first time... voting. It remains unclear, however, whether Bush, like Dunham, realized what he was saying.