Posted on 06/22/2016 8:01:57 AM PDT by detective
One-time Republican presidential candidate and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will be running to keep his Senate seat, reversing course on his initial decision not to seek reelection.
In an interview with the Miami Herald on Wednesday, Rubio explained what was behind his change of heart.
"I think that the point that really drove me to change my mind is that as we enter this kind of new chapter in our history here is, there's another role the Senate plays that I think can be really important in the years to come," he said. "And that's the power given to it in the Constitution to act as a check and balance on the excess of the president. It's even more important given the fact that control of the Senate could very well come down to what happens in the Florida race."
The Florida senator's decision came amid GOP concerns that its control of the Senate was in danger in November. The National Review was the first to report Wednesday that Rubio's intention to run for reelection.
Rubio had been under increasing pressure from his Senate colleagues to reconsider his previous decision, especially in light of a brutal Republican primary race in the state and the threat of losing the GOP's majority in the upper chamber come November.
The Florida senator suspended his bid for the presidency in March, after he failed to win the Republican primary in his home state.
After news broke of Rubio's intentions, Texas Sen. John Cornyn weighed in with his approval:
Even Trump, who once said Rubio "couldn't get elected dog catcher" in his home state of Florida, had pushed his former rival to reconsider.
Trump sent a tweet in May urging the Florida senator to help "keep the MAJORITY" for Republicans in the upper chamber:
Rubio's chances for re-election against Democrats are higher than any other GOP challengers' to his Senate seat. According to a new Quinnipiac poll out Wednesday, Rubio leads either Democratic candidate.
In Florida, a new Quinnipiac poll shows Rubio leading Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy 47 to 40 percent. He leads over Rep. Alan Grayson by a slightly larger margin: 48 to 40 percent. Murphy and Grayson, in comparison, are ahead of the other Republican contenders.
Dump the Gang of 8.
It will be interesting to see how this goes down....
I am assuming he must have some polling that show’s he has a shot, which to me is just incredulous.
It LIVES!
Mami laid down the law and ordered Foam Boy to get back on the grift.
I thought he didn’t like the job.
The current polling I saw has him up against both democratic opponents and doing better than the other GOP candidates for the seat.
And, guess what, he is against amnesty again!
I hope he loses. He should have stayed on path of retirement. He was so rejected, now nothing more than an embarrassment.
Running for president gives one a pretty high name recognition. In our current celebrity culture that means a lot
Hey RINOubio, come out of the closet and run as a dim bulb crat.
You are slime.
Slimy slime.
Slippery slimy slime.
The snake realized he doesn’t want to work for a living.
I'm a Floridian who has been eminently unhappy with Rubio, but it's not that simple.
If Trump wins and Rubio wins, Rubio may or may not fight Trump's agenda. If Trump wins and Grayson or Murphy win, either will immediately glom on to Reid/Durbin and fight Trump's agenda, and they will have all of the FL MSM on their side, including and especially the local FOX affiliates, Politifacts, and the local cable channel news (Bay News 9, Orlando 13, etc.). I think we have to play the percentages here, hold our nose and give Rubio the seat, since there is no one who is running and is more conservative (or less liberal).
P.S. If Hillary! wins, none of this matters, so let Rubio have the seat, and let's concentrate on keeping HRC out of the WH.
There. Fixed it.
Mister Rubio's comment on the bill he and the "Gang of Eight" created...
(with a straight face, no less)...
"This is not amnesty!"
Nonsense, of course. As if a "pathway for citizenship" for illegal aliens was something other than amnesty.
This person deserves a pathway FROM the senate; hopefully Florida voters are smarter than Rubio thinks they are.
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He was supposed to be on the inside track for the Florida governor’s race in 2018. Wonder what went wrong?
These boots are made for runnin’.
What difference does it make??????
I’m a long time Floridian and you can BET Rubio will fight Trump just as hard or harder than Grayson or whoever is the Democrat
NO I WON’T VOTE FOR HIM
We know Grayson will vote against Trump's SCOTUS. Rubio will vote for his nominees. That's the difference.
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