Trump was apparently in a fighting mood, after declaring a boycott of Fox News earlier in the day.
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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a presidential candidate and son of Cuban immigrants, ruled out a pathway to legalization and citizenship for undocumented immigrants during his presidency. And while we can’t condone using marijuana consumption to disqualify a presidential candidate for the highest office in the land, one has to admire Trump’s gumption and sense of humor.
“But I’m not in the headline”. You get pressure from inside the campaigns.
He then tossed the paper into the crowd.
Marco Rubio has been one of the most ardent supporters of DREAM amnesty- a position which led to Eric Cantor’s historic downfall.
It remains to be seen just how long Rubio can stay above the fray and if his standing will drop once the attacks start to sharpen. Flashing back to his 2010 Senate campaign in Florida, he said at an event in Charlotte this week: “Five years ago around this time I was 30 points down in the polls“.
He said he felt bad for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, an implicit reference to his weight.
“Rubio – I’ve never seen a young guy sweat that much“.
He twice knocked the Florida senator’s spotty attendance record and called him a “lightweight” – a dig he’s also aimed at Rand Paul and Bobby Jindal – in pushing back against Rubio’s criticism that Trump has not delved into foreign policy specifics.
But mostly, Trump roamed from topic to topic, mashing up his answers to Scott’s questions with his usual stump speech and whatever seemed to be on his mind. And Rubio has the charisma and personal story to give her headaches. He also struggled with hundreds of thousands of dollars in student debt, mortgages and loans, as outlined earlier this year by The New York Times. Democrats have zeroed in on him since last week’s GOP debate, slamming him for saying that women are “pushed into abortions” by Planned Parenthood for fetal tissue and knocking him for raising money on Yom Kippur at the home of a wealthy art collector who owns paintings by Adolf Hitler. “He had nothing”.
“Marco’s principles on immigration reform have not changed”, Rubio campaign spokesman Alex Conant wrote in an email. Bush placed third in the poll with 11%.
“The most important thing that we need from our next president is to be someone who understands the threats we face and has real solutions to those problems”, Rubio said before jabbing Trump on the issue.
The Florida senator has tried to avoid antagonizing the brash Republican front-runner, but on Tuesday evening Rubio finally landed in Trump’s crosshairs.
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At an event tailored for African-American business people in an area still shattered from a mass shooting by a white supremacist, he made only a pair of brief references to race.
