Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who is expected to announce a campaign for president on Monday, said in a new interview that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the “architect of a failed foreign policy” under the Obama administration.
Clinton is reportedly declaring her own candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on Sunday, a day before Rubio.
“We’re talking about someone who was this architect of failed foreign policy,” Rubio told the right-leaning Breitbart News website.
Rubio also brushed off the idea that Clinton timed her announcement to take place one day before his.
“What is her agenda going to be?” Rubio said. “Is she going to be a continuance of what we have now, which is not what the American people want? What’s the difference between her and the current administration?”
Republicans have criticized Clinton’s role as secretary of state before, citing still-deteriorating relations with Russia and the 2013 attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Rubio also responded to reports that President Obama is expected to change a long-standing U.S. policy identifying Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism.
“It’s ridiculous,” Rubio told Breitbart. “I don’t see how they can rationalize taking them off the list, other than the president’s desire to achieve a legacy issue that he’s the one that opened up Cuba and changed fifty years of policy.”
