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when a commercial that's supposed to be anti-rubio just comes off as anti-trump •_•

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"Marco Just Loves That Senate!": Marco Rubio Wants To Return To A Job He Hates

“Marco Just Loves That Senate!”: Marco Rubio Wants To Return To A Job He Hates

It took just one year for Marco Rubio to go from Beltway darling to “bless his heart.”

Rubio, whom Florida politicos have known for years as ambition in human form, ran audaciously for the United States Senate in 2010, shoving former Republican governor Charlie Crist out of the way and out of the party in the process. He won a 49 percent plurality in a three-way race against Crist and…

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#FLSen: Marco Rubio to Seek Re-Election to Florida Senate Seat

The decision is a boon for Republicans concerned about losing their majority in the Senate.

Marco Rubio will run for re-election for his Florida Senate seat, reversing his previous decision to leave Capitol Hill.

Rubio, who ended his White House bid earlier this year, had long insisted that he would be a "private citizen" after his current Senate term expires. But he came under intense pressure from his own party to seek reelection amid concerns that Republicans could lose their majority in the United States Senate.

Acknowledging in a statement that "in politics, admitting you've changed your mind is not something most people like to do," Rubio said that maintaining GOP dominance in the Senate was a key reason for his reversal.

"Control of the Senate may very well come down to the race in Florida. That means the future of the Supreme Court will be determined by the Florida Senate seat," he said. "It means the future of the disastrous Iran nuclear deal will be determined by the Florida Senate seat. It means the direction of our country's fiscal and economic policies will be determined by this Senate seat."

Rubio, who aggressively opposed the nomination of GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump during his own presidential run, also said "there is reason for worry" whether Trump or Hillary Clinton is elected president.

If Trump is elected, he said, "we will need Senators willing to encourage him in the right direction, and if necessary, stand up to him. I've proven a willingness to do both."

With a national profile and a deep fundraising network, Rubio was widely seen as the party's best standard-bearer in the state for what's sure to be an expensive and hard-fought general election race.

The deadline for Rubio to file for reelection is Friday, and the Senate primary will be held August 30.

Rubio indicated last week that he was reconsidering his pledge, suggesting that the massacre at a club in his home state had prompted him to think about his role as a public servant.

An aide confirmed the NBC News that the shooting was a motivator in his decision-making process.

He reiterated some of those concerns in an interview with the Miami Herald Wednesday.

"I think that the point that really drove me to change my mind is that as we enter this kind of new chapter in our history here is, there's another role the Senate plays that I think can be really important in the years to come," Rubio told the Herald. "And that's the power given to it in the Constitution to act as a check and balance on the excess of the president. It's even more important given the fact that control of the Senate could very well come down to what happens in the Florida race."

Rubio had also expressed reluctance to enter the race because a close friend, Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, was already seeking the Senate seat. But Lopez-Cantera told supporters last week that he would drop his efforts if Rubio decided to jump in.

Another GOP challenger, Carlos Beruff, on Wednesday called Rubio "Washington's candidate," saying "This isn't Marco Rubio's seat; this is Florida's seat. The power brokers in Washington think they can control this race."

A Quinnipiac poll out Wednesday showed that Rubio leads Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy 47 percent to 40 percent. Murphy faces his own primary against Rep. Alan Grayson in August.

In a statement, Murphy said "Marco Rubio abandoned his constituents, and now he's treating them like a consolation prize."

Hopefully Murphy defeats this flip-flopping coward in November.

h/t: Carrie Dann, Kelly O’Donnell, and Mark Murray at NBC News

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The Evolution of a Bad Idea

Aspiring Republican nominee for Senate from Florida Carlos Beruff made waves a few days ago when he called President Obama an “animal.” Beruff claimed his remarks were taken out of context, which is true; upon review, he in fact called the President an animal twice.

Beruff went on to suggest that President Obama has, over the course of his two terms in office, “surgically and with [sic] thought and very smart, intelligent manner, destroyed this country…he wants us to be just another country.” At first glance, this sounds like the ravings of an unqualified, two-bit candidate—which it is. But the narrative of President Obama as an ‘other’ out to cut the U.S. down to size has a long history on the right.

The presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, obviously gets quite a bit of credit for pushing this narrative given his fierce advocacy for “birtherism." And commentaries from a wide range of extremists on the right (including Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, and convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza) definitely reinforced the message on all manner of conservative media channels, often linking it to bizarre theories about the president’s imagined post-colonial worldview.

The mainstream Republican establishment, however, has furthered the narrative as well. Flop presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani claimed that Obama “doesn’t love America;” former Gov. Mitt Romney quipped in 2012 that no one had ever asked to see his birth certificate. Both of these assertions lean on the idea of President Obama as fundamentally different from (and perhaps opposed to) America.

But it was Sen. Marco Rubio, the one-time would-be champion of reasonable, positive, and not totally off the reservation conservatism in 2016, who gave this narrative the most explicit endorsement.  Throughout January and February of this year, Sen. Rubio argued repeatedly that “Barack Obama has deliberately weakened America,” making “an intentional effort to humble us back to size.”

To be clear, this the fringe candidate from Florida’s argument—virtually word-for-word from the party’s once-favored son just months ago.

Beruff is currently sitting at 1% in the Florida GOP primary, so there may not be much risk of him making it to the Senate floor. But his assertion that President Obama is out to weaken America is a reminder of exactly how pervasive this kind of poisonous messaging has become at every level in the GOP.

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Florida Senate GOP Candidate Calls Obama An 'Animal'

"He wants us to be just another country. I don't want to be another country," says Carlos Beruff.