Rubio betting on a long-haul strategy to win GOP nomination

Scott, wearing a red “atheist voter” shirt, had confronted Rubio in the townhall style meeting about the influence faith would have on his potential presidency.

As a gambit to sink the bill, Democrats introduced an amendment that would have included Donald Trump’s controversial proposal to temporarily ban all Muslims from immigrating to the United States.

Rubio says that each handshake and one-on-one conversation with an Iowa voter is a connection that will propel him to the top of the race.

“‘We’re not going to have amnesty, ‘ Rubio said”.

In the wake of critical campaign ads by his rivals Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz, GOP White House hopeful Marco Rubio is taking a tougher stance on immigration, in an apparent attempt to bolster his conservative credentials. Chuck Schumer says of Rubio in a 2015 interview clip. “I think he should move there if that’s where you want to live”, Sen.

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio told an atheist in the audience that he won’t be “forced” to stop talking about his faith on the campaign trail and argued that atheists should want his faith to influence his decisions.

On Monday, Christie again spoke of the 44-year-old Rubio as if he were a child, telling Fox News, “This is a first-term senator who still is learning where the men’s room is in the Senate, let alone figuring out how to lead a country”. Perhaps most importantly, if any piece of the 3-2-1 puzzle fails to fall into place (3-3-3 seems like an entirely reasonable outcome right now), the Rubio campaign would have pre-scripted their own failure narrative. First of all, I believe that you can’t really understand America unless…if you don’t believe that Judeo-Christian values influenced America you don’t know history…This nation was founded on the principle that our rights come from our creator. “I’d like Ted Cruz to go talk about NY values to the firefighters who rushed to the towers on 9/11, and the police and EMTs, to the fearless NY police officers who keep our streets safe”.

“We have some differences”, Rubio said of the candidates in the field. He says that in one state and then said something different in another.

A super PAC supportive of Cruz has already released a brutal attack ad even before the Cuban issue has risen to the surface. He admits it that he wants this country to look more like a Scandinavian economy. His answer is interesting because it directly contradicts things that he and his campaign have said and done.

First, Rubio has to get through the primaries and for now that means burying some of the optimism he based his campaign on.

“No one’s going to force you to believe in God”.

People might have gotten the wrong impression lately that Marco Rubio is some kind of pointy-toed-boot-wearing fancy-pants. And I think you should hope that influences me. You’ve got to know what you’re going to do.