Marco Rubio’s financial past is coming back to haunt him, and the Florida senator is ramping up his counterattack, trying to make a line stick that he’s just like millions of Americans struggling to manage their credit cards and access to cash. The Florida senator quickly pivoted to his preferred talking points-“I’m not anxious about my finances; I’m anxious about the finances of everyday Americans”-and the debate moved on”.
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The records showed plenty of personal spending, including movie tickets, charges to a wine store, a family vacation, even $1,000 for damage to his minivan and thousands more for a rental vehicle to replace it.
Rubio spoke in an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” after The Tampa Bay Times reported that he mingled personal expenses with his official uses of the card. “It wasn’t a credit card”.
Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. “But the Republican Party never paid a single expense of mine – personal expense”.
Those statements also happen to be the ones that Rubio has not yet made public, though he has been pressed repeatedly to do so, and has promised to release them soon. CNN has requested the documents, but has not received them. “I think that is the Karl Rove-kind of politics and I do not buy it”.
Singer has a history with Rubio, the long shot he backed in the 2010 Senate race against Charlie Crist.
A few polling suggests Rubio’s strong debate response to the attack and Bush’s October 23 decision to cut his campaign salaries and staffing means Bush is declining as Rubio ascends.
So if you want to focus on Rubio’s credit card shenanigans and his past life as a small-time charlatan, go right ahead. “A charge card, you have to pay off at the end of the month”. It was virtually the same explanation he’s giving today.
“Any personal charges were paid by me directly”. In addition to the state party credit card, the presentation also brought up his close ties to Norman Braman, a Florida-based billionaire who according to a New York Times report in May has acted as a personal and professional benefactor to Rubio. “Calling the billing a mistake, Rubio said he would repay the party about $2,400 to cover the flights”.
In the end, the Fact Checker found that there was no reason to disbelieve Rubio’s explanation of what happened.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., files to be on the nation’s earliest presidential primary ballot, at the New Hampshire secretary of state’s office in Concord.
“I find it ironic that the only person running for president that’s ever declared bankruptcy – four times in the last 25 years – is attacking anyone on finances”, Rubio told reporters in Concord, N.H., after filing paperwork to get on the state’s presidential ballot. Now Rubio is surging in New Hampshire?
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The last time Marco Rubio was in Connecticut, the White House hopeful was the headliner at a Republican fundraising dinner named after the grandfather of Florida rival Jeb Bush. It’s that straightforward and that’s why it is debunked as an attack.
