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Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday blasted President Trump for announcing he’s partnering with Russian President Vladimir Putin on cyber security, saying such a deal is like partnering with Syrian President Bashar Assad on a “Chemical Weapons Unit.”

When word leaked that Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, a holder of the Order of Friendship award in Putin’s Russia, was Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of state, John McCain had this thoughtful response: “Vladimir Putin is a thug, a bully, and a murderer and anybody else who describes him as anything else is lying.” Yet, Putin is something else, the leader of the largest nation on earth, a great power with enough nuclear weapons to wipe the United States off the face of the earth. And we have to deal with him. McCain was echoed by the senior Democrat on...

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said that he will not discuss any leaked documents published by WikiLeaks and is calling on the rest of his party to ignore them as well. "As our intelligence agencies have said, these leaks are an effort by a foreign government to interfere with our electoral process and I will not indulge it,” Rubio told ABC News. "Further, I want to warn my fellow Republicans who may want to capitalize politically on these leaks: Today it is the Democrats. Tomorrow it could be us."

Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Pat Toomey became the latest Republicans to speak out against Donald Trump's warnings of a rigged election Monday night. In separate high-stakes debates, the two incumbent U.S. senators each refuted Trump's claim that the results of the 2016 election could be tainted, and both men called for confidence in next month's vote. "Our elections may not always be completely perfect, but they are legitimate, they have integrity and everyone needs to respect the outcome," Toomey said during his debate with challenger Katie McGinty when asked about the Republican presidential nominee's allegations, which he's been repeating...

Former Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio reversed course Wednesday and said he will seek re-election to the Senate, telling Fox News: “I changed my mind.” The decision, widely expected among his Florida Republican colleagues, follows repeated claims during the GOP presidential primary race that he would not run again for Senate. Rubio for months had spoken about his frustrations with the Senate, in explaining his original decision to run for the presidency only – and defending himself against criticism for missed votes. But he told Fox News’ Chris Wallace on Wednesday while he’s “frustrated” with the Senate, it is “also...

Marco Rubio is close to endorsing Ted Cruz, but the two proud senators — and recent fierce rivals — have some details to work out first. Cruz has to ask for the Rubio’s endorsement, and both sides need to decide that it will make a difference, according to sources familiar with the thinking of both senators. Rubio and Cruz, who are more friendly with each other in the Senate than they are with longer-serving colleagues, occasionally chatted and patched up their sometime-rocky relationship on the campaign trail heading into Florida’s primary Tuesday, when Rubio was blown out by Donald Trump...

Goodbye, Rubio. Still we’re not going to miss you. Marco Rubio had the hype, the hope and the backing of the GOP establishment, but there was always something missing — voters. Now it looks like Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is the party’s only real hope to stop Donald Trump. Not the establishment’s first, second or third choice, but they have to get behind him if they want to stop Trump. With Trump’s wins in Florida, North Carolina and Illinois, he’s all but sure to finish the primary process with the most delegates — and close to enough to clinch...

One Florida political operative said Mr. Rubio had a "snowball's chance in hell," of getting Mr. Bush's backing after his "ultimate betrayal" of entering the 2016 race. Mr. Rubio also probably didn’t have it in him to beg Mr. Bush, given he’d outlasted the former governor in the presidential race, the operative said. . . "The governor decided he wasn't going to endorse anyone. He made up his mind that was the case and that's what he’s done," said Al Cardenas

It is widely anticipated that Marco Rubio is going to get shellacked on his home turf in Tuesday's Florida presidential primary. A very unsympathetic Friday profile in the Tampa Bay Times suggests that part of the reason this is so is that Rubio's entire career has consisted of sweet-talking influential individuals into giving him big opportunities only to drop those individuals like hot rocks when another better thing comes along... Pretty much every politician screws some people over; Rubio's problem at this point seems to be that he's got so few current allies that none of the people from his...

Voters judging incumbents – and that's what Rubio is in Florida – want to know what the incumbent has done for them while in office. In Rubio's case, that's close to nothing. . . How many Rubio-sponsored bills did the president actually sign into law? Exactly one, the "Girls Count Act of 2015." The bill is an act "To authorize the Secretary of State and the Administrator for the United States Agency for International Development to provide assistance to support the rights of women and girls in developing countries." Commendable, but hardly a legislative career to inspire Florida's conservative Republicans...

In testimonials, a young man, older woman and old man call Mr. Rubio "our pride" and an "hombre honesto," and say that "with our help, Marco will get to the White House." Mr. Rubio, surrounded by his wife and children, is shown delivering his stump speech fluently in his family's native language. The subtext is just as clear: We are in this together, and our mission is to help Mr. Rubio so he can help us.

On Fox and Friends Weekend, Fox News showed a video of Sen. Rubio from last night responding to a reporters' question if he'd support Trump as the Republican nominee. Rubio responded, "I don't know". A change in position for the Senator from ancient history...last Thursday. No link as of yet.

Alex Conant, Mr. Rubio’s spokesman, made the comments in an interview with CNN. He said that he hoped supporters of Mr. Kasich and of Senator Ted Cruz would support Mr. Rubio in his home state primary in Florida, and that he would suggest Mr. Rubio's backers in Ohio do the same by supporting Mr. Kasich there. "I'm just stating the obvious," Mr. Conant said. "If you are a Republican primary voter in Ohio and you want to defeat Donald Trump, your best chance in Ohio is John Kasich, because John Kasich is the sitting governor, he's very close to Donald...

When I moved to Florida several years ago, one of my greatest joys was getting to vote for Marco Rubio to take a seat in the U.S. Senate. It was exciting to support such a bold, courageous, visionary young leader. I loved taking on the establishment in Florida and doing my part to help Marco beat the odds. I had hope and confidence in him. I believed that he would help us take our country back from insane and immoral policies that are bankrupting our children's future. But Senator Rubio betrayed me. He betrayed the army of conservatives across our...

Florida's winner-take-all Republican presidential primary was supposed to help former Gov. Jeb Bush or Sen. Marco Rubio. That was the thinking when the GOP-dominated Legislature changed the state's primary date to the third Tuesday in March - the earliest date it could hold an election that will award all 99 Republican delegates to one candidate. But that was before Republicans here even dreamed of - or had nightmares about businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump possibly winning the state. It was before Bush went from front-runner to dropout and Rubio began losing whatever momentum he had after poor debate...

Marco Rubio is taking a page out of Jeb Bush's playbook — letting his allied super PAC fight the advertising battle ahead of a must-win primary in his home state. After disappointing primary losses Tuesday, Rubio's campaign has reserved only a few thousand dollars of advertising time on radio or television in Florida, according to data from Kantar Media's Campaign Media Analysis Group. Instead, the Rubio-aligned Conservative Solutions PAC is directing attack ads at billionaire Donald Trump, pumping money into nearly every market in the state and even airing a Spanish-language ad on Rubio's home turf of Miami in hopes...

After another disastrous performance in four primary and caucus states, the candidacy of Marco Rubio is troubled. However, he may not be out of the running for an executive branch job just yet, if the comments of Donald Trump on “Morning Joe” Wednesday were any indication.“I’ve always liked him, and then he hit me really hard,” Trump said.“I got along with him until a few weeks ago when he started playing Don Rickles.”When asked whether Rubio would be a potential VP candidate, to help with the establishment and Hispanic voters, Trump was cagey … but he didn’t rule it out.“If he runs and loses...

Informed by a combination of polling and forecasts from more than 100,000 users, the live probabilities generated by Pivit have the Florida senator's odds of prevailing in the GOP race at 1% . . . The market is bullish on Donald Trump, the winner in Michigan and Mississippi, taking him up to 70% from 63% to claim the nomination.