Sen. Marco Rubio
Sen. Marco Rubio, who’s been trailing in both state and national presidential primary polls behind Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz, canceled his scheduled stage talk at a conservative forum just five minutes before he was set to speak, right after Rep. Louie Gohmert slammed his amnesty views in a fiery address.
“Marco Rubio, will you raise your hand?” asked conference moderator Mark Levin, on stage at the Conservative Review Conference in South Carolina, after Rubio’s name was called to speak and he didn’t appear, Breitbart reported. “Where is he?”
Just minutes before, Gohmert had made it clear, without mentioning Rubio by name, he was disappointed in the amnesty push some politicians in the Republican Party had been making in recent times.
In an interview with Breitbart, Gohmert explained: “I didn’t mention his name. I didn’t mention any of his supporters. I just pointed out that we were really excited because we had been fighting Boehner’s amnesty and McCain-Schumer’s amnesty and we were so excited when we had a great tea party senator elected from Florida and then he joined the Gang of Eight bill.”
Rubio’s campaign said the senator had to cancel because of a scheduling conflict.
“Because of a delay in today’s schedule, Marco is unable to make the event … Senator Time Scott and Congressman Trey Gowdy attended to represent the campaign,” the campaign announced in a statement reported by Breitbart.
In a followup, Rubio’s campaign also said they sent former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, Sen. Tim Scott and Rep. Trey Gowdy in his place.
As Breitbart reported: “Moments before he was set to take the stage, the spokeswoman said, Rubio’s team informed the Conservative Review team he would be late. The Conservative Review team offered to adjust the schedule, and do whatever it took to accommodate Rubio so he could speak with the conservatives gathered there. Rubio eventually ended up not showing up at all. Rubio’s campaign is attempting to argue it sent Gowdy and Scott and Jindal as surrogates to the event, but the rule from Conservative Review set months ago was that campaigns couldn’t send surrogates unless the candidate himself came.”
Gohmert wouldn’t speculate why Rubio canceled. But other presidential contenders weren’t so restrained.
“This is a final admission that Marco Rubio isn’t even going to try to compete for the votes of conservatives in South Carolina or anywhere else,” said Rick Tyler, a communications adviser to Cruz, in Breitbart. “Instead, Rubio and his campaign would rather hide behind their deceptive campaign tactics and liberal record on amnesty for illegals and voting to nominate John Kerry.”
And Jeb Bush’s campaign said Rubio’s run-away shows he’s not capable to serve as the nation’s commander-in-chief.
Danny Diaz, Bush’s campaign manager, tweeted: “@MarcoRubio cuts and runs again. Not a commander in chief. POTUS needs to man up not hide.”
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