Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) opened up about his Christian faith in an ad released Thursday that was aimed at Iowa evangelicals, a crucial GOP voting bloc.
“The purpose of our life is to cooperate with God’s plan, to those who much has been given much is expected and we will be asked to account for that,” Rubio says in the 30-second spot.
Rubio’s life has run the gamut of Christian faith. While he was baptized as a child in the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the Mormon Church, he now is a Catholic who sometimes attends a “Southern Baptist-affiliated church,” according to the New York Times.
The ad will air in Iowa beginning this weekend, but the cost of the ad buy is unclear.
A Real Clear Politics analysis of Iowa polls puts the freshman senator in third place with 11.3 percent support. The Iowa caucus is Feb. 1.
Here’s the full ad:
