In an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who endorsed Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday, took himself out of the vice presidential mix but did recommend a fellow GOP favorite from the Sunshine State for the job -- U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio.

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After his win in Illinois on Tuesday, Mitt Romney is looking to take Louisiana, which holds its primary on Saturday, from Rick Santorum and effectively seal up the Republican presidential race.

The Romney team is going all out to win the Pelican State and is bringing out some of Louisianas top Republicans. U.S. Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., made the case on Wednesday for Romney.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott and the Republican Party of Florida are taking credit for the unemployment rate going down in the Sunshine State. The RPOF is running a new television commercial praising Scotts policies -- namely reducing regulations and slashing red tape -- which have helped lower the unemployment rate.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney offered his thoughts in a statement on getting the endorsement of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Wednesday.

NFL quarterback Tim Tebow is headed to the New York Jets.

While there had been talk that the Denver Broncos would ship the former University of Florida standout back home to the Sunshine State -- namely his hometown Jacksonville Jaguars -- the quarterback is headed to Gang Green to back up Mark Sanchez.

Tebow (along with a seventh round pick) heads to New York for a fourth round draft pick and a sixth round one. Tebow had been starting in Denver, but with the Broncos signing Peyton Manning earlier in the week, the team could move him.

Former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, a group affiliated with the tea party movement, penned a piece that ran late on Tuesday on the Wall Street Journals website. The piece focused on Republican Senate candidates and, citing Florida, pointed to the need for conservative candidates:

A day after winning the Illinois primary, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney continued to build momentum on Wednesday when former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush announced that he is backing the former Massachusetts governor for the GOP nomination.

Most presidential nominees do not choose one of the candidates they defeated in the primary for the vice presidential spot on the ticket, though there have been exceptions: some successful like Ronald Reagan/George H.W. Bush and Barack Obama/Joe Biden and some unsuccessful like John Kerry/John Edwards.

While hes based in neighboring Texas, Louisiana is not exactly Ron Paul territory. He took 5 percent in the Louisiana Republican presidential primary back in 2008 and a poll unveiled on Tuesday finds he stands in a distant fourth with 3 percent -- tying him with Rick Perry, who pulled out of the race in January, and Buddy Roemer, the former Louisiana governor who is primarily focused on running for the Reform Party and the Americans Elect nominations.

Despite placing fourth in the Illinois Republican primary on Tuesday, Newt Gingrich said in a statement on Wednesday that he intends to stay in the race until the Republican convention in Tampa. Gingrich also insisted that Mitt Romney is only leading the race because he was burying his opponents in spending.