With Florida’s winner-take-all primary just a week a way, Senator Marco Rubio is racing around Florida in an attempt to solidify his existing base of support, as Republican presidential frontrunner, Donald Trump, continues to lead Rubio in all of the recently conducted public opinion polls within the Sunshine State.
Rubio needs to win Florida if he is going to have any shot at winning the GOP presidential nomination, but Trump isn’t making it easy on him, as he continues to blast him at every turn on the campaign trail.Trump most recent attack ad against Rubio regurgitates many of the issues that Rubio faced during his historic 2010 Senate race against then Republican-turned-Independent-turned-Democrat Charlie Crist.
“He used the Republican Party’s credit card to pave his driveway and live it up in Las Vegas. When he got caught he said he had used the wrong credit card. But he had used the same Republican Party card for six flights between Miami and Tallahassee… top of it all Rubio’s been a total no-show in the U.S. Senate with the worst voting record of all.”
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Ouch.
Team Rubio responded to Trump’s attack with this statement from the campaign’s spokesman and all-around nice dude, Joe Pounder:“First Donald Trump gave big bucks to Charlie Crist in 2010 and now he’s recycling the same false and negative attacks about Marco. Charlie Crist’s and Donald Trump’s con didn’t fool Floridians in 2010 and it won’t fool them now. These attacks didn’t even stop Trump himself from saying Mitt Romney should pick Marco as his vice president just two years later.”
In addition to Trump’s move to weaken Rubio prior to the next weeks Florida primary, it appears as if Rubio’s campaign wheels are coming off, as CNN reported that “most of his advisers agree he does not have a path to the nomination and some are advising him to get out ahead of the March 15 primary.”
The CNN correspondant who reported the story, Jamie Gangel, defended her story after Rubio National Spokesman Alex Conant called her story “fiction,” and suggested to Wolf Blitzer that CNN should “stop reading that sort of fiction on air.”
While Gangel may be on to something, we can report that there is sort of talk among Rubio’s grassroots support, some even hoping that he drops out before the primary election in order preserve any chance he may have for the V.P spot, or any future political run for office.“The Rubio campaign may not be happy that this story out there when they’re fighting for their life and trailing in the polls. They don’t want people to know there’s dissent in the campaign, but the reality is we were told there has been a serious debate about whether he should drop out before the Florida primary,” Gangel said later on CNN.
Meanwhile, Rubio presses on with stops in Sarasota, the Panhandle, and good ole Hialeah, which is only a few miles and several Pollo Tropicals away from his home in West Miami.