Rubio on Trump prank: ‘I drink water. So what?’

Like all other candidates in both parties, he has handicaps.

“Glad that Marco Rubio can change his tune so quickly when he is trying to give himself a promotion”, said Christina Freundlich, a spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee.

“If Bernie Sanders had more momentum or if Joe Biden has announced, I think it would be a bigger conversation”, Mr. Thomas Southard, director of the Wolfington Center, said. Except Politico pointed out that Rubio has missed more than half of the hearings related to his seat on the Foreign Relations Committee. He hits back, and hard, when cornered.

ATLANTA (CNN) – Donald Trump is escalating his attacks on Sen. At a campaign event in Franklin, Tennessee, Trump criticized the fact that the school was a gun-free zone saying, “Let me tell you, if you had a couple teachers with guns in that room, you would have been a hell of a lot better off”.

RUBIO: Yeah. I mean, look, this is what happens. Rubio, however, ran ahead of Trump, albeit narrowly: 49% to 46%. They’re coming from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras. “The problem is if El Chapo builds a tunnel under the fence, we have to be able to deal with that”. Expect him to do more retail campaigning than Trump. Rubio has brushed off Trump’s attempts to instigate a feud, most recently by sending the senator a box of bottled water – a prank referencing Rubio’s infamous reach off camera for a gulp of water during his rebuttal of the State of the Union in 2013. Even when Rubio denounces policies he helped write, he hedges on the rationale – the senator generally emphasizes his assessment of provisions’ legislative prospects, not his personal views. Trump’s camp also included two towels that bore his slogan “Make America Great Again”.

While Trump and Carson continue to lead in the polls, there is an opening for someone to emerge on the establishment-oriented, economic-conservative side, a lane occupied by Bush and Rubio, as well as John Kasich and Chris Christie.

Democrats are calling Rubio a hypocrite over the issue. But Bush over the past two weeks has questioned aloud whether Rubio has the skills needed to run the country. “It’s easy to close your eyes and imagine him as the president”. “He continued telling Fox News, “I would say: ‘Hey, guys, everybody attack him! It’s top-notch water”, he said on “Today” Monday”. One of the two early favorites for the nomination, Scott Walker, has already abandoned the race; the other, Jeb Bush, is struggling badly. In this new phase the race’s pivotal figure may no longer be Trump, the most bombastic candidate, but Rubio, the most talented one.

“The media is always looking for a few conflict”, he said, “and I accept that as part of the political process”.

RUBIO: I like Rubio/Kasich better or Rubio/someone else.

“We have hundreds of thousands of young Americans who own thousands of dollars in student loans”, Rubio said.

At one point the Dyn tour leaders, all men, stopped to talk with Rubio about the importance of attracting more women into the tech field. 29% of the time over the a year ago you not in attendance when votes were taken in the Senate.