Marco Rubio isn’t doing himself any favors by trying to defend failing to show up for votes by claiming that the votes he missed weren’t important. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Independent Sen.
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Rubio’s truancy rate, which is not only the highest among the various senators running for president but the highest in the entire Senate, has increasingly become an issue on the campaign trail.
“I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do other than sit around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them”. Kirk, who suffered a devastating stoke, missed fewer votes than Rubio.
The 44-year-old freshman senator from Florida has often been compared to President Obama who initially ran for the president in 2008 as a first-term senator from Illinois.
“So someone might say, you’re not showing up, you’re not doing your job by voting”, she told him.
Marco Rubio defended police on Tuesday from what he says is increasingly hostile language pushed by groups who say they are working to end police brutality.
American Bridge decried Gonzalez’s proposal as “malicious” and said it went “above and beyond” a similar bill introduced in the Indiana legislature, noting that the Florida measure could be used to discriminate against same-sex couples looking to adopt a child.
Navy veteran Marcia Safran said she is “very glad that he is supporting the veterans and will make a good decision about who I vote for in the primary”.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said he “love[s]” his job, but clearly Rubio “wants to do something different”.
Confidence and optimism aside, Rubio isn’t blind to his low presidential poll numbers – even in his home state – and blames them on “a very unusual year”. I mean, Bernie is one of the most authentic guys you’re every going to meet.
“Marco Rubio has already quit on the people of Florida”.
On Sunday, he told CNN that he’s not missing votes on goal but because he’s kind of busy running for president and all.
President Obama, as a candidate, missed 56.3 percent of his votes in the third quarter of 2007 and 89.4 percent of his Senate votes in the final quarter.
He then repeated: “I think votes, of course, are important, but unfortunately, too many of them today are not meaningful”.
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This news cycle repeated itself last spring, when Rubio got a bounce from a widely covered campaign kickoff speech that propelled him (briefly) to second place in the polls; and it started again earlier this month. He’s missed 59 separate votes since his campaign has begun. “I got fully briefed and caught up on everything that’s happening in the world”.
