GOP Candidates Pick Their Secret Service Names

The 11 Republican presidential candidates who participated in the 3-hour September 16th debate on CNN were all asked to give themselves a Secret Service code name they liked for the Secret Service to call them if elected. Here are their replies in the order given:

• Chris Christie – True Heart
• Unit One (or Unit Two, according to his wife)
• Carly Fiorina – Secretariat
• Scott Walker – Harley
• Jeb Bush – Eveready (“It’s very high energy, Donald”)
• Donald Trump – Humble
• Ben Carson – One Nation
• Ted Cruz – Cohiba for himself and Angel for his wife, Heidi
• Marco Rubio – Gator
• Mike Huckabee – Duckhunter
• Rand Paul – Justice Never Sleeps

Of course, the ones that got the biggest laughs were “Eveready” and “Humble,” offered by Jeb Bush and Donald Trump, respectively. Looks like they cut out the part where Trump extended his hand to Jeb Bush in between their answers and Bush slapped it. It would have been a high-five moment if Trump’s hand was higher but since it wasn’t, it was more like a low five. When Trump gave his “Humble” handle, Jeb Bush exclaimed: “That’s a good one.”

And it was, but Bush’s “Eveready” response was definitely the Secret Service nickname winner, a quick-witted retort to Trump’s previous jab calling the former Florida governor “low-energy.”