Posted on 08/18/2015 12:01:20 PM PDT by maggief
Sen. Marco Rubio cast aside Donald Trump’s recent immigration plan during an appearance at the Iowa State Fair Tuesday and challenged whether it would pass Congress.
“I haven’t read his plan; from what I’ve seen from press reports, there are a couple of ideas he shares with a lot of people,” the Florida senator told reporters after a speech at the fair about the plan Trump released Sunday.
“But [the rest] doesn't sound like something that has any chance to pass Congress.”
Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, has been more moderate than most of his GOP presidential rivals and was a sponsor of the 2013 immigration reform bill that included a pathway to citizenship. Trump’s immigration policy paper slammed that compromise bill — which he called the “Schumer-Rubio immigration bill — as a “giveaway to the corporate patrons who run both parties.”
The real estate magnate, who is soaring in the GOP polls, also proposed to end birthright citizenship for children born of parents in America illegally.
Rubio’s comments followed a rain-soaked speech at the fair Tuesday where the senator spoke for just eight minutes and didn’t take questions from the crowd because of the weather.
“I’m going to cut it a little shorter than normal because they say another band is coming through and I don’t want anyone to get wet,” he said.
“But probably too late for that.”
While he spoke for less than half of his 20-minute allotment and left to meet voters instead of taking questions in the pouring rain, a substantial throng of attendees with ponchos and umbrellas assembled to listen to his speech.
His modified stump speech cast a forward-looking view at the country, promising that the next century could be better than the past one. He touted ideas to modernize America’s economy and higher education, as well as shore up national defense.
“What we are called upon to do not is ensure that the American dream doesn’t just survive, but it reaches more people and changes more lives than ever before,” he said.
“We are called not to just keep America special and great, but keep it greater than it’s ever been.”
Rubio’s appearance at the Des Moines Register’s presidential soapbox marked his first appearance in the Hawkeye State since the state’s voters declared him the winner of the Aug. 6 Fox News GOP debate, according to a recent Suffolk University poll.
While that poll found him in third place with 10 percent of Iowans, a CNN poll of Iowans just a few days later found him tied for seventh with 5 percent.
The Associated Press notes that he hadn’t been in Iowa for a full month before his most recent return, leading some Republicans to question why he hasn’t visited more often.
After he left the stage to meet with fairgoers, Rubio bumped into Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R). While the governor remained shy on any official endorsement, he said that he could see himself supporting Rubio.
“He’s a good friend, he came to my birthday party. I’m trying to be a good host for everyone who comes,” he said.
“I’m really impressed, I think he’s a rising star in the Republican ranks and we are really appreciative of him coming.”
Toast!
Shut up pretty boy.
It will be a little easier with Rubio gone.
Gee. Trump will have a pen and a phone just like Obama. Maybe he won’t need Congress?
The reason establishment republicans are doing so badly is for the following reason.
Rubio and his clan are all about making the possible impossible which is depressing.
Trump is about making the impossible possible which is America.
Very simple to understand.
A nation without borders is not a nation.
A nation without laws is not a nation.
A nation that does not take care of its citizens is not a nation.
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I wonder what part of that doctrine Senator Rubio finds impossible to put in place.
The fledgling member of the Gang of Eight has spoken...
Pi$$ off, Rubio.
You’re nothing but an amnesty shill for the Florida sugar and citrus big-monied interests, and the U.S. Chamber of Amnesty, you phony TEA Party candidate.
So Rubio has something better, or he just doesn’t want this to happen and keep the murdering bastards running around this country???? AMF Rubio......
Just go away, punk.
What is a Congress anyway...
NRO: “Rubio Says Trump’s Immigration Plan Not ‘Workable’”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/422693/rubio-says-trumps-immgiration-plan-not-workable-alexis-levinson
“I haven’t read his plan; from what I’ve seen from press reports ...”
Who’s press reports? Glenn Beck’s?
“I haven’t read it...”
But from what the Cheap Labor Express tells me. It’s DOA.
He said he has not read the plan...this is not Nancy Pelosi and its not 1,000’s of pages long. I understand the whole thing is five pages.
Rubio needs to think about what he will be doing after the election because he won’t be our US Senator in Florida.
Freegards
LEX
Since most of Trump's plan involves using existing laws and authorizations of congress, I'm not exactly sure what Congress would do to stop it - is Rubio going on the record saying he'll work in the senate to repeal existing laws?
Oh, and is it just me, or just maybe a TINY bit premature for one presidential candidate to say to another presidential candidate that your plan has no chance of getting through congress when the universal response from the talking heads in the media AND in his party that Trump has no chance of winning.. Chalk up a tiny victory for Trump in having Rubio effectively say that he believes that Trump has a fair chance of winning now.
Rubio doesn’t understand a president Trump doesn’t need to make/write new laws on immigration.
If Trump got elected on that issue alone, WHO in Congress is going to stand in the way to block ‘funding’ to enforce existing laws?
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