Rubio Spox: We’re Not Complaining About The CNBC Debate — Our Guy Won!

Marco Rubio speaks during the CNBC Republican presidential debate at the University of Colorado, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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A spokesman for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said on Friday that he wasn’t going to complain about CNBC’s heavily ridiculed Republican presidential debate this week — because his guy did pretty well.

Alex Conant, Rubio’s campaign communications director, was responding on Fox News to the Friday announcement that the Republican National Committee would drop NBC News from its February debate because of the way its financial news arm handled the debate.

“I’m not going to complain about a debate that my boss obviously did very well at,” Conant told Fox News host Gretchen Carlson.

Contant continued: “We just want want these debates to be substantive. We don’t want these debates to be personal attacks.”

He also said after Rubio “clearly won the debate,” the campaign pulled in $750,000 in donations of the strength of his performance.

The remarks came after days of 2016 Republicans slamming CNBC’s debate moderation as overtly biased. The criticism boiled over on Friday, when RNC chair Reince Priebus sent a letter to NBC, CNBC’s parent network, to suspend its partnership on a Feb. 26 debate pending “further discussion.”

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  1. “Rubio Spox: We’re Not Complaining About The CNBC Debate — Our Guy Won!”

    Their guy is Hillary Clinton?

  2. He also said after Rubio “clearly won the debate,” the campaign pulled in $750,000 in donations of the strength of his performance.

    Hmm…Cruz pulled in over $770,000 in a shorter time period. So by that measurement, Cruz won.

  3. This is news - social conservatives not complaining about something!

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