Senator Rubio is rising in the 2016 GOP presidential polls, as is Senator Ted Cruz.
But of the two, Cruz is considered to be the most conservative and trusting, primarily because Rubio veered off his hawkish 2010 pro-legal immigration campaign platform.Rubio’s flip-flop, and ever-evolving position on immigration reform has, and will continue to plague him unless owns up to the fact that he betrayed millions of Americans who believed that he would not support any pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
In plain terms, Rubio needs to apologize to Americans.
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I have said it before, if Rubio were to ever own up to his catastrophic blunder of sponsoring his Obama-supported amnesty for illegal immigrants “Gang of Ocho” Senate bill, and apologize, Americans would give him another chance.
Do all of you die-hard Rubio supporters understand that President Obama, the person you hate most in the life, applauded Rubio’s bill, saying that it was exactly what he wanted for America?
You do understand this, right?In speaking to some of these Rubio supporters, Rubio’s support for his”Gang of 8″ bill is a very touchy subject for them. It is the one issue that they disagree with him on.
Before Trump and Carson entered the race, I stated that if Rubio wins the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, that he would in fact be the next President of the United States.
I still stand by that statement,but to get there, Rubio needs to put this immigration fiasco behind him once and for all.
Even with Trump and Carson surging and holding steady at the top of the GOP field of candidates, a Rubio apology on immigration would significantly boost him, allowing him to pick off some of those soft Trump and Carson supporters who may only be supporting their candidates because of the immigration reform issue, and have Rubio as their second choice.
Mr. Rubio’s retreat has been especially stark given the prominent role he played as a member of the Gang of Eight bipartisan senators who wrote the 2013 immigration reform legislation. That bold bill, which passed the Senate but went nowhere in the House, elevated his status among establishment Republicans and many independents; it also put him in foul odor with the party’s anti-immigrant wing now so enamored of Mr. Trump’s hate-filled rhetoric.-WaPo, Editorial Board
Well, maybe not Carson, as the former surgeon supports a pathway to citizenship, but definitely Trump.
But even if Rubio apologizes and continues to ascend in the polls, Ted Cruz is not going away anytime soon. Like I said, conservatives see Cruz as being more trustworthy than Rubio, which could suggest that many of those “purist” type Trump and Carter supporters could really have Cruz as their second choice, and not Rubio.
This race could boil down to Rubio v. Cruz. You never know.