Jeb Bush starts food fight with New Hampshire at Iowa State Fair
Hold onto your lobster rolls: Jeb Bush says the food in Iowa is better than in New Hampshire, according to a Des Moines Register reporter.
Bush attended the Iowa State Fair Friday. The Register’sJason Noble tweeted that the former Florida governor made the culinary calculation with Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad standing by in the fair’s Pork Producers tent.
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The New Hampshire Democratic Party seized on the moment.
“Jeb Bush can keep his deep-fried Snickers, his out-of-touch views to defund women’s health and ‘phase out’ Medicare, and his disastrous foreign policy ideas,’’ NHDP communications director Lizzy Price told Boston.com.
“We’ll stick with Puritan’s chicken tenders any day,’’ she added, referring to the 98-year-old Manchester restaurant, locally renowned for its chicken tenders and co-owned by a Democratic New Hampshire executive councillor.
The Bush campaign and the New Hampshire Republican Party did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The remarks are perhaps surprising, given the Bush family’s New England roots and his apparentaffinity for lobster rolls.
Did Bush risk offending the first primary state in order to kiss up to Iowa caucus voters? He is currently faring better in New Hampshire than in Iowa.
His comments leave his campaign to hope he won’t get the short end of the deep-fried butter on a stick.
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