POLITICO’S scrappy Florida reporter Marc Caputo, has posted that a recent poll that was share with him shows that Senator Marco Rubio continues to struggle among Florida voters.
RUBIO’S FL STRUGGLES A poll of Florida voters finished last week and shared exclusively with Florida Playbook shows how tough Rubio has it thanks to Jeb. Bush racked up 34 percent support from registered Republicans followed by … Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who stood at 20 percent. That’s double what Rubio got. That other Floridian, Mike Huckabee, was a point shy of Rubio, at 9 percent. Undecided stands at 14 percent. The error margin is 5.5 percentage points.
This isn’t breaking news to Floridians, as Rubio has been trying to win back their support after he fully embraced the Obama-backed Senate immigration reform bill he himself co-sponsored.
Caputo also posted in his morning “playbook” that Rubio was in New Hampshire promoting his new book, and posted a video of what Rubio’s potential 2016 presidential stump speech may sound like during a town hall meeting in Hollis, New Hampshire.
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Wait. Rubio held a town hall meeting outside of Florida?
Since being elected into office in 2010, Rubio has not held open town hall meetings in his home state, especially after his immigration reform misstep in 2013.
While Rubio has conducted private group meetings with grassroots activists around the state of Florida, Rubio has not held any open meeting like the ones he used to hold when he was running for the U.S. Senate in 2010.Individuals close to the Senate believe that Rubio does not hold town halls in Florida because he fears being heckled and embarrassed by Republican grassroots activists who feel betrayed by Rubio’s new position on immigration reform.
During a recent book tour stop in Miami, Rubio was heckled by pro-illegal immigration activists, who have been pelting him with demands that he do more for their cause(s).
I am not sure what else he could do for them, short of going down to the border and opening the door himself.
This book tour stop doesn’t count as town hall meeting. The chances that Rubio will be called out by pro-immigration reform activists for his support of the “Gang of Ocho” Senate immigration bill, if he holds a town hall meeting outside of the People’s Republic of Miami, is all but certain to happen.
As Rubio would say, “suffice it to say,” Florida’s grassroots activists could be primed to support another national conservative grassroots presidential candidate, perhaps someone like Senator Ted Cruz?