Marco Rubio Skips Another Vote, This One On Defense Spending

Marco Rubio encountered a unusual moment on the campaign trail as a man used a question and answer session to launch rambling accusations against the Florida Senator.

In the wake of Walker’s departure from the race, a few of his supporters have gone to Rubio, but many have embraced other candidates, Bush and Cruz particularly.

“It was actually kind of weird”, Rubio said. “Marco … followed my lead”, Bush noted to MSNBC when discussing that both served in Tallahassee “And I’m proud of that”. “I’ve always said that I want to run a campaign that my children and the people that support me can be proud of”.

The GOP candidate said on CNBC on Monday that he doesn’t think any of the Republicans running are “anything like” Obama when asked about a subtle comparison drawn between him and the President by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Rubio’s team said its fundraising efforts were stunted in July by Scott Walker’s entrance into the race, and several other candidates who jumped in early in the summer.

On Tuesday, Florida’s senior senator, Democrat Bill Nelson, declined to say if Rubio’s absenteeism was hurting the state, saying that the two have a good relationship.

He also defended his recent voting record in the Senate, where he’s missed 29 percent of the votes. “In my four and a half years there, I’ve been deeply frustrated by the lack of progress on any major issue and we’re not going to make progress unless we have the right person in the White House”.

Rubio’s explanation for why he missed the vote? “And that’s why I’m running for president”. When he has seemed to draw a contrast between himself and Bush, it is not overt, and usually delivered as having a choice between yesterday and today, the old and the new. But the Republican presidential contender never bargained for the ” weird” incident that took place Tuesday at a campaign event in New York City. “He did a great job as governor of Florida”.

He said too many politicians and policies are “trapped in the past” and said he was running for president to preserve the American Dream. “But this election isn’t about me, or anyone else running”.

You have millions of people in this country living paycheck to paycheck, and nothing is being done about it. We are about to leave our children with $18 trillion in – in – in debt, and they’re about to raise the debt limit again. This killer’s father is now lecturing us on the need for gun control and he says he has no idea how or where his son got the guns. Floridians are paying Rubio’s salary. “They should go to the committee hearings, they should vote”.