But I make that prediction gingerly, not boldly, because Rubio is a very odd sort of front-runner. According to an NBC News analysis released at the beginning of October, he had missed 59 votes since declaring his run for president in April, or 42%. A lot of these votes won’t mean anything. And if you want to be President you need to get on the stick. Why aren’t you winning in your home state?
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Marco Rubio (R-FL) took a shot at his opponent Donald Trump by suggested he wasn’t serious about the issues. I’ve been up, I’ve been down. He says you’re weak on immigration.
Rubio has faced tough questions about his seemingly shifting position on immigration.
Gangel stopped him, “Wait a minute”. Its comments on Trump’s candidacy were not flattering: “Donald Trump is a great entertainer and developer, but his ideas of what to do as president won’t grow the economy”, Club for Growth President David McIntosh said.
The Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio has defended his common and much-criticised absences from Senate business, saying: “Voting is not the only part of the Senate job”. He has time to change that.
GANGEL: So right now he’s not ready to be Commander in Chief?
He added, “I will support the nominee but I’m comfortable it’s not going to be Trump”. And so I feel good answering that question. “That’s why I’m missing votes. I can’t guarantee they will this time but if they do the field will look much narrower”. And if voters don’t buy that, Rubio has another explanation: “In the history of presidential politics, people have, when they’ve been running for politics in the Senate, they’ve missed votes”, the senator told CNN.
His campaign people will use distraction, confusion and old fashioned magic to formulate an excuse for Rubio’s announcement he will not seek office in the Senate again. “You elect Hillary president, you have a country that goes to hell”. The Rubio campaign also has hired national pollster Whit Ayres, a USC graduate who works for other S.C. candidates, and Wesley Donahue, a digital strategist who was a political aide to S.C. Senate Republicans.
Rubio’s campaign says it has been working behind the scenes to build support in the Palmetto State.
“He wouldn’t be doing what he’s doing now if he were a quitter”, said Norman Braman, a Florida auto dealer and one of Rubio’s longtime donors.
RUBIO: Not true, not true.
Rubio has missed almost nearly one third of Senate votes this year. That’s not an indication that the junior Florida Senator is dropping out of the primary race, but rather that he’s more than eager to quit his job in the Senate. Because voting is not the most important part of the job. He used his own parents’ story: They emigrated from Cuba, and worked as a bartender and a maid while Rubio was growing up. I’m fully aware. We have a staffer that’s assigned to intelligence who gets constant briefings. “I just don’t know about”. I got fully briefed and caught up on everything that’s happening in the world. She had Saturday Night Live, she did well in the debates, she went through 11 hours of the hearings.
Rubio is good at proposing stuff that doesn’t pass. Then he quits that stuff, too. Democrats say you are formidable, that they are scared of you. “You haven’t been around long enough”.
RUBIO: Well, first of all, none of those things matter.
This just seems like a rookie mistake in terms of campaign strategy.
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Last month Rubio told Iowa voters that when he ran for his Senate seat back in 2010 against former Democratic Governor Charlie Crist, the establishment “actively tried to undermine” his candidacy, and they still aren’t backing him now. He talked about the American dream – and how immigrants treasure it, and nurture it.
