Racing president Teddy Roosevelt appears to be making excellent time in his race to Mt. Rushmore, tweeting that he beat rival William Howard Taft to the Indiana border just after 5:00pm Friday.
That’s nearly one third of the driving distance from Nationals Park to the South Dakota landmark on just the first afternoon.
Taft, meanwhile, stopped in Cincinnati to visit his boyhood home.
Teddy continues to get triple the fan votes as his rival Taft in the corresponding Twitter contest, but at just 100 fan tweets as of Friday evening, one has to wonder whether the Nationals mascot team had higher expectations from their newly fabricated rivalry.
LET TEDDY WIN 