Now Marco Rubio Will Skip The Republican Convention

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., arrives as State Department Under Secretary for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon, Jr., as he appears before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesda... Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., arrives as State Department Under Secretary for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon, Jr., as he appears before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 5, 2016, on recent Iranian actions and implementation of the nuclear deal. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) MORE LESS
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Now that he has decided to run for re-election, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) will not attend the GOP national convention in Cleveland.

“Florida has always been a competitive state, and it will be this fall. Marco had planned to go to the convention before he decided to seek reelection. Since Marco got into the race late, he will be in Florida campaigning and meeting with voters instead of going to Ohio,” Rubio spokeswoman Oliva Perez-Cubas wrote in an email statement to Politico on Wednesday.

This marks a reversal for Rubio, who said in May that he would speak at the Republican convention if asked.

Rubio joins the ranks of several Republican lawmakers who plan on skipping the convention at which Donald Trump will almost certainly be nominated as the party’s presidential nominee. The chairman of the Senate Republican campaign arm has advised vulnerable senators up for re-election in November to avoid the convention.

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  1. Good grief! Even little Marco can figure it out: You can’t go to the Trump Republican Convention and have a hope of being reelected as a Republican.

  2. At what point does the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce start squawking about significantly fewer attendees than anticipated?

  3. And yesterday both Corker and Ernst said thanks but no thanks. Today he may not get anyone to talk to him but the biggest, wackiest wingnuts in D.C. Last night he talks like a crazy street person for a half-hour straight, yelling about stars and mosquitos. I don’t see how this can go on for four months. It’s madness, quite literally.

  4. The question is, will anyone notice?

  5. Skipping things is kind of Marco’s trademark in politics.

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