In OTL Jeb Bush considered moving to Florida in 1980 in order to help build a network for his father's presidential campaign. Yet instead he decided to stay in Texas where he formed a political career of his own. After losing his first election to State Treasurer Ann Richards in 1986, Bush make a comeback when he was elected to succeed Richards in 1990. He was re-elected in 1994 and two years later won the U.S. Senate seat previously held by Phil Gramm, who stepped down in exchange for the Bush family's endorsement of his Presidential campaign. Senator Bush later became the Republican nominee for President in 2000.
But what if Jeb Bush had decided to move to Florida in 1980? Would his career have gone as far as it did in OTL? Might George W. Bush, who helped his younger brother's political rise in Texas while he pursued a baseball career, have taken Jeb's place and run for President instead?