Marco Rubio Archives

Rubio Distances Himself from DeSantis’ Ukraine Remarks

March 14, 2023 Buck Banks

“I don’t know what he’s trying to do or what the goal is. Obviously, he doesn’t deal with foreign policy every day as Governor. So I’m not sure. I can’t speak to that. I can’t compare that to something else he did or said over the last few years because he doesn’t deal with it every day.”

— Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, distancing himself from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ apparent flip-flop on the war in Ukraine, on the Hugh Hewitt radio show.

Won’t Be SOTU Without You

March 1, 2022March 1, 2022 Buck Banks

Li’l Marco stands out from the rest.
He won’t attend the SOTU or take a Covid test.
That’s OK, little guy,
We remember your 2017 SOTU reply,
So, Li’l Marco just stay home, hydrate and rest.

A new Mason-Dixon survey in Florida finds Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) leading challenger Val Demings (D-FL) in the U.S. Senate race, 49% to 42%, with another 9% of voters undecided.

Less Than Half of Floridians Want to Re-Elect Rubio

March 10, 2021 Buck Banks

46%

A new Mason-Dixon poll in Florida finds 46% of voters think Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) should be reelected in 2022, while 40% don’t. No major Democrat has emerged to run against him, so the poll could only cite “a Democrat” as an alternative.

Sorry, Rick and Marco, It’s All Ron

February 23, 2021 Buck Banks

64%

In a hypothetical three-way Republican primary for president in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) gets 64% support compared to 12% for Sen. Marco Rubio (R) and 10% for Sen. Rick Scott (R), Politico reports. That 52-point lead over Rubio represents a massive increase since July when he was ahead by just 11 points over Rubio.

All Members of the House Look the same to Sen. Rubio

July 18, 2020 Jon Ponder

That is Marco Rubio on the left, but he is terribly confused about the identity of the recently deceased member of Congress he’s pictured with.

Trump’s Latest Foreign Policy Play Hurts Cubans AND Americans

June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 Buck Banks

Tuesday, June 4, as Donald Trump was wrapping up his only moderately disastrous state visit to the United Kingdom, the U.S. Treasury Department issued a press release announcing that the Trump administration was reversing the Obama administration’s 2014 loosening of restrictions on Americans’ travel to Cuba.

Of course, to maximize confusion, the policy was set to go into effect THE NEXT DAY — Wednesday, June 6.

The nugget of the press release was this quote attributed to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin:

“Cuba continues to play a destabilizing role in the Western Hemisphere, providing a communist foothold in the region and propping up U.S. adversaries in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua by fomenting instability, undermining the rule of law, and suppressing democratic processes,” said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. “This Administration has made a strategic decision to reverse the loosening of sanctions and other restrictions on the Cuban regime. These actions will help to keep U.S. dollars out of the hands of Cuban military, intelligence, and security services.”

Although it wasn’t spelled out in the press release, supporting documents made it abundantly clear that Trump was returning to those halcyon days of yore when only Americans with direct family ties in Cuba could legally travel there.

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Rubio Gives Resounding Endorsement of Trump’s Mental State

August 13, 2018 Buck Banks

“Well, he’s had the nuclear codes for a year and a half, and we’ve been all right.”

— Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), in an interview with the Weekly Standard, on his comments during the 2016 primaries that Donald Trump was so mentally unstable he couldn’t be trusted with the nuclear launch codes.

What Does Surprise Winner in Bloomberg News Poll Portend for 2020?

October 26, 2016October 26, 2016 Trish

The winner of the latest Bloomberg News poll

The results of a new Bloomberg News poll in Florida show the winner is…Michelle Obama!

The First Lady’s net favorability score — 57 — was higher than the other ten people in the poll, all of whom are, were, or want to be, elected officials.

Here are the actual numbers, from lowest net favorables to highest:

Patrick Murphy, candidate for the Florida U.S. Senate seat currently held by Marco Rubio — 38
Tim Kaine, Democratic VP nomineeand Virginia senator — 39
Hillary Clinton — 44
Donald Trump — 46
Rick Scott, Florida governor — 47
Bill Clinton, former president — 47
Marco Rubio, Florida senator — 50
Mike Pence, Republican VP nominee and Indiana governor — 51
Barack Obama, president — 51
Joe Biden, vice president — 54

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— Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, distancing himself from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ apparent flip-flop on the war in Ukraine, on the Hugh Hewitt radio show.

49% to 42%

A new Mason-Dixon survey in Florida finds Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) leading challenger Val Demings (D-FL) in the U.S. Senate race, 49% to 42%, with another 9% of voters undecided.

46%

A new Mason-Dixon poll in Florida finds 46% of voters think Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) should be reelected in 2022, while 40% don’t. No major Democrat has emerged to run against him, so the poll could only cite “a Democrat” as an alternative.

64%

“It’s a measure of the Republican Party’s current depravity that I think of the period when Marco Rubio was besmirching Donald Trump’s genitalia as the good old days.”

— Frank Bruni

“Well, he’s had the nuclear codes for a year and a half, and we’ve been all right.”

— Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), in an interview with the Weekly Standard, on his comments during the 2016 primaries that Donald Trump was so mentally unstable he couldn’t be trusted with the nuclear launch codes.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, distancing himself from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ apparent flip-flop on the war in Ukraine, on the Hugh Hewitt radio show.

“The idea of Tucker Carlson being in that mob that day and not wetting his pants is hard to imagine.”

— Anderson Cooper, on CNN, criticizing the Fox News host’s attempt to re-write what happened on January 6.

“One of the things we learned post-Trump presidency is that he had ordered a bombing of a couple of fentanyl labs, crystal meth labs, in Mexico, just across the border and for whatever reason, the military didn’t do it. … I think that was a mistake.”

— House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) told Fox & Friends that it was too bad that Donald Trump didn’t launch a military attack on Mexico to try to stop drug traffickers.

“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”

— Donald Trump, in a speech at CPAC.

“Trump, allies say, seems set on ‘Ron DeSanctimonious,’ even though others around him don’t think it’s a bullseye. Some of the new ideas the former president’s entertained: ‘Ron DisHonest.’ ‘Ron DeEstablishment.’ Or even, ‘Tiny D.’”

— Bloomberg

Numerati

21

Twenty-one members of the South Carolina State House are considering a bill that would make a woman who has an abortion in the state eligible for the death penalty, Rolling Stone reports.

37

11.6%

Hate crimes in the US surged 11.6% in 2021, with the largest number motivated by bias against Black people, followed by crimes targeting victims for ethnicity, sexuality and religion, the FBI said in a report. The FBI reported hate crime incidents rose to 9,065 in 2021 from 8,120 in 2020.

80%

— John Ellis

311,000

“U.S. hiring grew solidly but cooled some in February as employers added 311,000 jobs, while unemployment rose to 3.6%,” the Wall Street Journal reports.