Rubio: I Won’t Stop Saying ‘Barack Obama Is Undermining This Country’

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) holds a town hall meeting in the McKelvie Intermediate School cafeteria February 7, 2016 in Bedford, New Hampshire. Hundreds of people came to the event to se... Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) holds a town hall meeting in the McKelvie Intermediate School cafeteria February 7, 2016 in Bedford, New Hampshire. Hundreds of people came to the event to see Rubio just two days before voters go to the polls in the 'First in the Nation' presidential primary. Photo by: Dennis Van Tine/Geisler-Fotopres/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS
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After acknowledging on Tuesday night that his debate performance on Saturday hurt him in New Hampshire, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said on Wednesday morning that he won’t stop talking about how President Obama is hurting the country.

Rubio told “Fox and Friends” on Wednesday that the narrative about the Saturday debate “made it very difficult for us to get any other message across” as New Hampshire residents were headed to the polls.

The Florida senator was criticized by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Saturday for repeating a line that Obama “knows exactly what he’s doing” and that the President is “trying to change this country.”

Fox’s Steve Doocy asked Rubio what he meant when he said he would never let what happened on Saturday happen again.

“Are you going to completely blow up your narrative?” Doocy asked.

“No. First of all, it’s silly because all these guys repeat over and over again — I mean, every single one of them, I can give you five lines they say every single day,” Rubio responded.

The Florida senator later added that he won’t stop talking about how Obama is hurting the country.

“One of the things I’m criticized for is saying the truth, and I’ll continue to say this: Barack Obama is undermining this country. He is hurting this country. He is doing serious damage to this country in a way that I believe is part of a plan to weaken America on the global stage. This is the truth,” Rubio said on Fox.

He also defended himself from criticism that he’s inexperienced.

“This line that somehow I have no experience is absurd. It’s true I haven’t lived as long as some of the people running for president, but I have more foreign policy experience than any of them,” Rubio said.

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  1. “Ruu-bee’ Wanna Cracker?” ~squawk…squawk!~

    The fuse was lit in Iowa.…aaaaaand’! ~PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT’!~ Nowhere!
    Poor little corporate whore and lightweight. Pure amateur hour.

  2. Keep on keeping on, Mario. If it doesn’t work, do it again.

  3. when your foreign policy experience seems to be trying to get your parents story straight about the circumstances of how and why they came to the States it really isn’t something you can boast about… it should, at the least, give you some insight as how complicated foreign policy can be in the real world…

  4. “… I believe is part of a plan to weaken America…”

    Rubio is starkly accusing Obama of treason. If a President through deliberate and planned actions had the designed intention of harming and weakening the nation it would constitute impeachable offenses. Rubio should put his money where his mouth is. As a Senator he is derelict in his duties for not introducing articles of impeachment. Why would a sitting Senator sit idly by and let a President deliberately engage in a planned destruction of the country?  Rubio is not exercising his Constitutional powers to intervene and put a halt to it.

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