He kept a promise to be brief, keeping his opening remarks to about 13 minutes – quite short for the eloquent Rubio – and spent more than an hour tackling about a dozen questions.
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The U.S. Senator from Florida has been criticized for a campaign focused on television and fundraising from large donors rather than the more personal, retail campaigning that is seen as the traditional way to win early states like Iowa and New Hampshire. “Rubio or another one of their out-of-touch, divisive candidates”. For example, the president is pursuing policies that make energy more expensive while weakening the military and intelligence services weaker during unsafe times. “And the governors are not commander-in-chief”, he said, before adding “and neither are senators”.
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Marco Rubio at the 2015 Iowa Growth & Opportunity Party at the Varied Industries Building at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa.
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That leaves Rubio. The Florida senator has attracted a lot of support from Romney backers.
Bush, who had said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that his favorite town halls are the ones where Trump is unmentioned, seemed to catch himself.
“For me, it was a lack of patience with the status quo”, said Rubio. “I believe that’s political trash-talking….” There’s also the fact that, as a member of the Gang of Eight, Rubio was apparently a less-than-stellar negotiator who didn’t recognize when he had leverage and made concessions where they weren’t necessary (something that might not have happened if he’d had more, ahem, experience).
“They understand how this process works”, he said.
Among registered Republicans (55 percent of likely Republican primary voters), Rubio leads with 16 percent, followed by Kasich and Trump at 15 percent each, Christie at 14 percent, and Bush and Cruz at 10 percent each.
It was a particularly pertinent question to ask in the city, which would benefit to the tune of $7 million in annual property taxes from the construction of a converter station to be built there, and given that Franklin Mayor Ken Merrifield is one of Rubio’s top supporters in the state. “I think that’s a bad trade-off”.
“The difference is when I talk about leading the global coalition against ISIS that I did, it was about a threat we all agreed on and what to take action on”, said Rubio. Arkansas Surgeon General Dr. Greg Bledsoe is also endorsing Rubio, as is Rep. Nate Bell of Mena, a Republican turned independent.
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Ed Day said, “Marco Rubio is the candidate who will stand up for the principles that we hold dear”. He pointedly said: “I believe that one of our next generation of Republican leaders, one who may not be as well known as I am today, one who has not yet taken their message across the country, one who is just getting started, may well emerge as being better able to defeat the Democrat nominee”.
