Rubio Out

GOP Presidential candidate Marco Rubio speaks during CPAC 2016 March 4, 2016 in National Harbor, Maryland. The American Conservative Union hosted its annual Conservative Political Action Conference to discuss conserv... GOP Presidential candidate Marco Rubio speaks during CPAC 2016 March 4, 2016 in National Harbor, Maryland. The American Conservative Union hosted its annual Conservative Political Action Conference to discuss conservative issues. Photo by Olivier Douliery/Sipa USA MORE LESS
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I didn’t think Rubio would get out tonight. Soon, yes. But not tonight. And yet there it is. It was a contradictory speech in many ways. On the one hand he was clearly standing against Donald Trump’s politics of division; on the other arguing that the “political establishment” betrayed the Tea Party waves of 2010 and 2014 – which is in many ways the sort victimization politics and raising of false, hopeless expectations that laid the groundwork for Donald Trump.

Certainly one of his more human moments, certainly a difficult one for him. You can see the emotional anguish in his speech, affect and how he’s carrying himself.

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