Can you imagine the onslaught if he had taken an inopportune moment to have a sip of water??? They’d probably still be warming up the tar and getting the bags of feathers ready...
It wasn’t the sip of water Rubio took. It was the over-reaching/lunge for the bottle, and the awkward look of it, along with Rubio trying to keep looking at the camera.
It was an unfortunate moment which tells us Rubio is not ready for TV. Sorry - he needs some good TV coaching, and he also needs to check out his surroundings to make sure everything is in place before he speaks, even tho his people will have taken care of the details.
The speech was good; at the sipping water moment his appearance, was awkward and clumsy, -and the late-night crowd will not let him forget it.