Well that’s reassuring:
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says his “sense” is that Donald Trump’s positions on issues will more fully develop as he takes on the role as president.
“I view the Senate as a place that can always act as a check and balance on whoever the next president is,” Rubio said on WGN radio on Wednesday. “I also think there’s something to be said for, once you’re actually in that position, once you’re actually working at this thing, and you’re in there, and you start to have access to information that perhaps you didn’t have before, especially for someone that’s never been in politics, I think it starts to impact your views a little bit.”
“And that’s my sense of it, as he settles into this role as the nominee and ultimately the president, access to these issues is going to begin to, in some ways, kind of shape some of the policy positions given reality versus perhaps what you might read about on a blog somewhere. So I think that’s gonna be a real factor,” Rubio said.
And by the way, Rubio is going to be riling up his key members of the base: homophobes.
When Marco Rubio cited the deadly attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando as a reason he was changing his mind and running for re-election to the U.S. Senate, many LGBT allies immediately noted that the Florida senator and failed presidential candidate hasnever been an ally of the LGBT community.
“To be using the tragedy in Orlando as a time to reflect on his Senate career, when his career and his promises on the campaign trail have been anti-LGBTQ consistently, it’s just staggering to think he would be using this moment for his own personal ambitions,” said Jay Brown of the Human Rights Campaign at the time.
It comes as no surprise, then, to see that Rubio is slated to address an event in Orlando next month that will feature some of the country’s most vehement anti-LGBT activists.
The Orlando-based Liberty Counsel Action, an extreme anti-LGBT group whose affiliate is famous for representing Kentucky clerk Kim Davis in her stand against the Supreme Court’s marriage equality decision, announced in an email today that the Florida Renewal Project will be hosting an event called “Rediscovering God in America” in August. The event will be headlined by Rubio, who will speak alongside anti-LGBT activists David Barton, Bill Federer, Ken Graves and Mat Staver.
With the recent press about Rep. Alan Grayson (D. FL), I am now all in for Rep. Patrick Murphy’s (D. FL) U.S. Senate campaign. Murphy recent picked up another big endorsement:
With a dog-days-of-August primary election nearing, U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphyannounced another union endorsementWednesday, adding to his trove of get-out-the-vote labor groups which could prove decisive for the Jupiter lawmaker.
Murphy faces an Aug. 30 contest with U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, and three lesser known Democrats. But Murphy continues to build on union support, picking up the backing of the Florida Professional Firefighters Association and its international unit.
The FPFA represents 24,000 fire fighters and emergency medical service personnel in 175 departments across the state.
Click here to donate and get involved with Murphy’s campaign.