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Rubio however has tried to defend his missing votes by explaining that numerous votes aren’t meaningful. Rand Paul of Kentucky and independent Vermont Sen.

Analysts have found the Florida Republican has missed the most votes this year of any of the senators running for president. Yet the son of an immigrant father who spent his life serving food and drinks in places where he couldn’t afford to buy himself a beer missed it. His aides say he has not missed a vote in which he would have decided a bill’s fate.

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio reportedly “hates” working in the Senate, a job he has made it no secret he won’t be returning to if his bid for the presidency falls through.

“So someone might say, you’re not showing up, you’re not doing your job by voting”, she told him.

The Sun Sentinel, which once upon a time endorsed Marco Rubio for senator, has turned on the presidential hopeful in a scathing editorial that calls Rubio to quit his day job. “It is the primary obligation of the federal government”, Rubio said. “His past support for comprehensive immigration reform is a major liability, but Rubio has shown a lot more finesse on that issue than has Jeb, and one liability isn’t usually enough to doom a candidate who otherwise looks like a victor”. Rubio has missed almost 30 percent of votes this year, more than any other senator.

Should we give public officials running for higher office any slack on this, or should they resign if it’s going to cut into their public responsibilities? However, he’s still facing a few serious hurdles: he’s well behind Donald Trump and Ben Carson in the polls, as a first-term senator running for president he’s often accused of lacking experience (the Barack Obama comparisons only make things worse), and he’s being attacked for having the worst attendance record of any senator in the current Congress.

Braman donated to Rubio’s U.S. Senate campaign, and hired Rubio as a lawyer for seven months while he campaigned. In his defense, Rubio appeared on CNN and brushed off the criticism, saying that the votes he missed were “meaningless” because President Obama would just veto bills anyway.

RUBIO: We do all the intelligence briefings. Marco Rubio: If you don’t want to do the work, it’s time to resign. “Because voting is not the only part of the Senate job”.

Just as Douthat is imagining President Rubio, the Washington Post tries to take him down a peg. “I got fully briefed and caught up on everything that’s happening in the world”.

But many of Rubio’s Republican colleagues told The Huffington Post on Tuesday they love being in the Senate.