Marco Rubio: Why Is the Establishment Attacking Me?

The Florida senator didn’t hold back when asked to give his opinion of Trump during a sit down with voters at a diner in Manchester, reports ABC News. Rand Paul says Donald Trump potentially becoming the Republican presidential nominee is more worrisome than Sen. He changes with the wind. Instead, Trump has continued to build his lead, both nationally and in the key early states of Iowa and New Hampshire.

Bush said people should support him because of his record of being a “committed conservative”, while Trump was “Johnny come lately”. Rubio spokesman Joe Pounder took to Twitter to argue that Bush’s campaign “exists now for the sole objective of tearing down conservatives”. New Hampshire is more problematic: Rubio ranks second in the RealClearPolitics polling average, but since the beginning of December he has been tightly bunched together with Christie, Kasich, and Bush. The senator’s operation – both campaign and super PAC – is anchored by SC veterans who long ago identified their state as his firewall because of their institutional and organizational advantages, and because they viewed it as the best fit for someone without a geographic or ideological foothold in either Iowa or New Hampshire.

“We all see what’s happening”. “For example, I’ve had over $20 million spent attacking me”. “Don’t fall for it”.

Other polls have produced similar results, although Pew’s numbers are the strongest to date.

“There is a belief now on the left and right that we don’t have the infrastructure to deal with mental health challenges in this country”, Bush said.

Observers are not used to seeing a strained relationship between two men who live less than three miles apart in South Florida and have been personally and politically close.

Bush made his case in an unusual way on Thursday: Identifying gun violence-one of the most controversial issues in Congress-as an topic ripe for consensus.

The harshened rhetoric comes as Rubio upped his own attack on Bush Wednesday, hitting the governor’s past advocacy for Common Core and alluding to his establishment status within the Republican Party. “Ironically, Trump not only could win – he could win more decisively than any non-incumbent Republican contestant for the nomination since the dawn of the modern primary system”. Who benefits? Most likely Rubio. But almost a decade out of office, Bush’s rust as a candidate has shown, giving the telegenic Rubio a chance to surpass his mentor.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Seneca Republican who dropped out of the presidential race last month, endorsed Bush Friday, the same day the poll was taken.

Donald Trump is even winning over previous skeptics. It might not be as easy for the friends who have had to choose sides.

He diagnosed corruption in Washington as endemic, and said that is one reason why the D.C. establishment “is rushing so quickly behind Donald Trump”. “If neither of them win it, well, then that’s a different story”.