IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Marco Rubio On ObamaCare
Marco Rubio On ObamaCare
CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
July 20, 2010
Rubio: “Well, those numbers are not dissimilar to what we saw initially after he switched. And the truth is, when I got in this race a year ago right around this time, I was 35 points down in the Republican primary. So, I’ve been here before and I know what it takes to overcome that. That being said, these polls now in American politics—I mean, there’s one every day, everyone’s doing one—what we’re focused on is laying out the things we believe in. And here’s what I know: come November in Florida, there’s going to be a very clear choice. If you like the way things are going here in Washington, then you have two people you can vote for. That’s not me. If, on the other hand, you want to send someone up here that will act as a check-and-balance on the direction that this Congress and this administration’s taking our country, I’m the only choice on the ballot that will do that.”
Blitzer: “You don’t think Charlie Crist, as an independent, would have that ‘check-and-balance’?”
Rubio: “I don’t believe he’s really an independent. I think there’s increasing evidence that he now is embracing the Obama agenda. Today we read in the Wall Street Journal that he now supports ObamaCare. He has flipped on Sotomayor—now he says he would have voted for her. We don’t know where he stands on Elena Kagan. But I think he’s going to support her.”
Blitzer: “So you think if he won as an independent, he would caucus with the Democrats?”
Rubio: “I think it’s increasingly—he’s, I think, almost admitted that at this point. He said he’s had two phone conversations with Harry Reid recently to talk about his future in the U.S. Senate. So, obviously, those are questions he’s going to have to answer. But I think all indications are, and I believe, that he will caucus with the Democrats in Washington and be a part of promoting the Obama-Reid-Pelosi agenda.”
