In addition to Ballard, Politico quoted a number of Bush supporters expressing unease with Bush’s recent criticism of Rubio’s missed votes in the Senate and lack of experience, which Bush raised in last month’s debate.
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“When Donald comes across a poll he doesn’t like, he gets weird and does these sorts of odd things”, said Rubio after an event at St. Anselm College in the afternoon.
But it’s a charge card given to him by the Republican Party of Florida that’s caused Rubio the most trouble.
The revised approach is a pivot from what aides had said was Bush’s readiness for the long haul into next year’s state-by-state campaign for the nomination.
The Florida senator told Beck that the GOP needs to transform its image if it wants to be a national party and insisted that not every problem has a federal solution.
The Republican Party of Florida paid for none of the senator’s personal expenses. “The federal government is a very limited branch of government”.
The Tampa Bay Times and Miami Herald first reported in 2010 that the charge card was used for party expenses and sometimes personal expenses as well. Rubio paid American Categorical directly for these personal charges, the marketing crusade stated in a press release.
Rubio’s finances also played out during his 2010 campaign for the U.S. Senate, when critics questioned details of his home mortgage payments and a liquidated retirement account.
Bush, who has sunk to single digits in early-voting state polls, is spending more concentrated time this month in Iowa, New Hampshire and SC, the first three states to hold nominating contests next year.
Rubio, 44, said that if he could go back in time and change the way he handled the charge card, he would not have made any personal purchases with it to avoid all the “confusion it’s created in the minds of a few”.
Trump has been hitting Rubio over his financial history on the trail, mocking his personal debt and raising concerns about personal expenses that were charged to a Republican Party of Florida card.
“It’s been coming up for five years, it’s not a new issue”, Rubio said Wednesday in New Hampshire.
On Saturday, Mr. Rubio’s campaign released roughly two years of charges, from 2005 and 2006, that were made to his Republican Party of Florida-issued American Express card, hoping to at last quiet accusations that he used party money to pay for trips, meals and gifts for him and his family.
In Carson’s book, he does say he was “offered a full scholarship to West Point” but that “I let them know that a military career wasn’t where I saw myself going”. “I’m anxious about the finances of everyday Americans who today are struggling in an economy that is not producing good-paying jobs while everything else costs more”. “If I’m Rubio, I’m looking for a super PAC donor to step forward and say I got your back”, Hammond said. The Florida Republican Party was responsible for paying off the cards on a monthly basis.
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“I find it curious that Donald Trump, the only person in this race that has filed for bankruptcy not once but four times, is attacking anyone’s finances”, he said.
